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

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It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

Rohinton Mistry

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

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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

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

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. . . you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

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. . . the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

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What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

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