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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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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't…
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...…
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Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone,…
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will…
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A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin
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Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down…
— Peter Watts
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Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?
— Reginald Shepherd
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What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in…
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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The first family is my kin. The other family is my SNSD family.
— Im Yoona
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