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F. Sionil José has 19 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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings…
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