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• What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

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  Girl, Ties, Hair

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• In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

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  Memories, Two, Imagination

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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• But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

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  Pain, Memories, Sadness

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

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  White, Black, Brain

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• ...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the new border; it became a river of blood upon the earth. And the orchards, fields, factories, businesses, all on the wrong side of that line, vanished with a wave of the pale conjuror's wand.

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  Two Nations, Blood, Rivers

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.289, Vintage

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• I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

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  School, Piano, Class

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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• The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

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  Witty, Caring, Law

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.563, Faber & Faber

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• Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

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  Loss, Essentials, Calamity

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.760, Vintage

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• Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

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  Emotion, Wonder, Made

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.747, Vintage

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• Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

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  Pain, Sadness, Sorrow

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

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  Helping Others, Evil, Choices

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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• All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

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  Real, Writing, Perception

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• The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

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  Carnage, Wounded, Humans

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.366, Vintage

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• There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

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  Believe, Comforting, Harm

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.75, Vintage

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• Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

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  Giving Up, Rights, Too Much

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.209, Vintage

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• Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

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  Past, Names, Patient

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• He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

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  Ceilings, Spit

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.698, Vintage

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• There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

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  Perfect, Privacy, Concerts

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.87, Vintage

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• Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

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  Beautiful, Majestic, Faces

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• Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

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  Fire, Firsts, Walks

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “Family Matters”, p.246, Faber & Faber

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• Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.

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  Men, Car, Riding A Bicycle

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