Monday, June 6, 2011

Line By Line: Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)"Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off."

"You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair."

"After all, our lives are but a sequence of events - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity that we call life."

"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."

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

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