All Miguel Syjuco Quotes
- When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly… Afraid
- Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective. Change
- Love and honesty don't mix. Funny
- It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. Clinical
- Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get. Angst
- Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love. All
- We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us… Character
- Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago. Ago
- To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. Alone
- Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many… Constant
- Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it All
- History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth. Changed
- The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by… Ago
- You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the… All
- I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes… All
- If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger… Alone
- Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity… Modernism
- The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still… Addition
- I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with… All
- There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportunities, no incentive for them to come back… Back Home