We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“...the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Life is worth living really but only if we believe it is, if we believe further that life is eternal not because… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“In the end, the satisfaction which all of us seek, it seems, can come only from our discovering that we really have… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“We do not conquer life, no one can conquer what one cannot define, but at least it is there and it is… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals,… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
