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F. Sionil Jose has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs,…
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also…
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,…
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the…
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their…
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of…
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant…
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the…
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the…
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the…
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so…
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We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every…
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Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
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There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos,…
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