“People who confuse social behavior with manners naturally think of it as something that can be donned and doffed, a fashion that can be copied. But social behavior is nerve and bone, not clothes, and is never just a copy,… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...” — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“If your hands were not clean, your good actions had grimmer and more relentless consequences than your sins.” — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.” — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“When he had gone home, he had been frightened, he had refused to face what he saw. But he had not really wanted to… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may at times… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
The young look up to me as their feeder, said Alex. Well, they can go look for another trough. I'm through with this hogwash.Are… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“The world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity. — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.” — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“I fell in love when I was twenty-six. Love in my interpretation comes once in a lifetime.” — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
