“No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me. -Istak” — F. Sionil José Stranger Copy Share Image
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. — F. Sionil Jose Emotion Copy Share Image
“Who then lives? Who then triumphs when all others have succumbed?” — F. Sionil José Lives Copy Share Image
“Epidermis, epidermis! How could it mean so much, when underneath, all blood was red?” — F. Sionil José Blood Copy Share Image
“If we could only learn to trust one another--Tagalogs trusting Ilokanos, Pampangos trusting Tagalogs. -The Cripple” — F. Sionil José Trust Copy Share Image
“Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)” — F. Sionil José Evil Copy Share Image
“We cannot be rooted in the past forever. We must not be sentimental.” — F. Sionil José Rooted Copy Share Image
“You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.” — F. Sionil José Body Copy Share Image
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste… — F. Sionil Jose Birth Copy Share Image
“Only with steadfast memories can we now be strong so as to undo the mistakes of the past, to begin anew and… — F. Sionil José Beginning Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with… — F. Sionil José Honest Copy Share Image
You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the… — F. Sionil Jose Contemplation Copy Share Image
We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we… — F. Sionil José Books Copy Share Image
“[Of the Bagos:] Like the Moros in the south, they are our brothers. We must recognize their belongingness to Filipinas, their willingness… — F. Sionil José Fight Cripple Copy Share Image
“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he… — F. Sionil Jose History Copy Share Image
“...I wish I were not the me that I know, that I be some unfeeling hunk of plastic, designed to take all… — F. Sionil José Punishment Durable 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 Conquer 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 Heart Copy Share Image
When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love… — F. Sionil José Breathing Copy Share Image
“In a world grown dark with deceit there there are many who are blinded and few who can hold up a light… — F. Sionil José Blinded Copy Share Image
“How many funerals had he attended, how many open graves had he seen, watched the coffins eased down, or sometimes just a… — F. Sionil José Coffins Copy Share Image
“I am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of… — F. Sionil Jose Identity 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 Causes 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 Death Copy Share Image
I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to… — F. Sionil Jose About Copy Share Image
“But like my father, I have not done anything. I could not, because I am me, because I died long ago.” — F. Sionil José Died Copy Share Image
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues. — F. Sionil Jose Faults Copy Share Image
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral. — F. Sionil Jose Always Copy Share Image
“Absences can also make one forget. Absence dulls the memory and banishes those who are precious from the mind.” — F. Sionil José Absence Copy Share Image
Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity. — F. Sionil Jose Egoism Copy Share Image
“Virtue and wealth seldom go together. The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men." -The Cripple” — F. Sionil José Cripple 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 Nature Copy Share Image
“None will thank me for this, nor anyone will remember. -Istak” — F. Sionil José Gratitude Copy Share Image
“It is the heart which dictates, which rules, which lets us live and die.” — F. Sionil José Dictates Copy Share Image
“But all men die--as anonymously as they had lived, no matter what their achievements. -Istak” — F. Sionil José Achievements Copy Share Image
I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs. — F. Sionil Jose Acted Copy Share Image
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Books Copy Share Image
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. — F. Sionil Jose Admired Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose About Copy Share Image
“The Philippines just need 100 youth to stand up for their country” — F. Sionil José Philippines Copy Share Image
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