F. Sionil José Quotes

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• A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation…
• I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that…
• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands…
• November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow…
• I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a…
• Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I do know that…
• We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
• The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who…
• Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.
• ‎Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we…
• 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, too,…
• Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
• I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work,…
• We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with…
• We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we…
• You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our…
• No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates…
• When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you…
• Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not…

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