Author: Rohinton Mistry

Cites

• Honoré de Balzac (1)
  • IN: A Fine Balance (1997) Historical Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true."
    FROM: Le Père Goriot, (1835), Novel, France
• Firdausi (1)
  • IN: Such a Long Journey (1991) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: He assembled the aged priests and put questions to them concerning the kings who had once possessed the world. 'How did they,' he inquired, 'hold the world in the beginning, and why is it that it has been left to us in such a sorry state? And how was it that they were able to live free of care during the days of their heroic labours?'
    FROM: Shah-Nama, (1010), Poem, Iran (Persia)
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: Such a Long Journey (1991) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey...
    FROM: Journey of the Magi', (1927), Poem, US
• Rabindranath Tagore (1)
  • IN: Such a Long Journey (1991) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with the wonders.
    FROM: Gitanjali, (1910), Poem, India