Rohinton Mistry Quote Explained: Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

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Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

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· India

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The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

- Rohinton Mistry

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· India

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Children don’t make judgments about which details are important… a child captures them all.

- Rohinton Mistry

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· India

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So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

- Rohinton Mistry

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· India

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The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

- Rohinton Mistry

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· India

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

- Rohinton Mistry

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· India

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

- Rohinton Mistry

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· India

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You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

- Rohinton Mistry

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· India

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

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

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

Children don’t make judgments about which details are important… a child captures them all.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

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

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

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Explain

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Explain

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. Explain

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

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

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

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