“If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities… — Nick Joaquín Art 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… — Nick Joaquín Perspective Copy Share Image
“If your hands were not clean, your good actions had grimmer and more relentless consequences than your sins.” — Nick Joaquín Impressions Copy Share Image
“Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.” — Nick Joaquín Filipino 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… — Nick Joaquín Blood 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… — Nick Joaquín Dreams 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… — Nick Joaquín Identity 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… — Nick Joaquín Alex 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… — Nick Joaquín Too busy Copy Share Image
The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity. — Nick Joaquín Asking Copy Share Image
“If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.” — Nick Joaquín Children Copy Share Image
“I fell in love when I was twenty-six. Love in my interpretation comes once in a lifetime.” — Nick Joaquín Love Copy Share Image
“Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences; it is the honorable attitude of receiving another's opinion in order to… — Nick Joaquín Common good Copy Share Image
Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself. — Nick Joaquín Alternatives Copy Share Image
“People who confuse social behavior with manners naturally think of it as something that can be donned and doffed, a fashion that… — Nick Joaquín Fashion Copy Share Image
“No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be… — Nick Joaquín Children Copy Share Image
“When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are… — Nick Joaquín Culture Copy Share Image
“Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or… — Nick Joaquín Destiny Copy Share Image
“This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino,… — Nick Joaquín Culture Copy Share Image
“We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance...… — Nick Joaquín Culture Copy Share Image
