Biographies Quote by F. Sionil José

“A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.” quote by F. Sionil José — Download Open image

“A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.”

F. Sionil José

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Biographies Complexes Fascinating Filipino Firsts Geography Performances Politics Rate Relation Scholarship Soldier Statesmen Virtuoso Writing

More by F. Sionil José

“There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David”

F. Sionil José

Image

“Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.”

F. Sionil José

Image

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined…

F. Sionil Jose

Image

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

F. Sionil José

Image

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius,…

F. Sionil Jose

Image

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

F. Sionil Jose

Image

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

F. Sionil Jose

Image

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

F. Sionil Jose

Image

Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals,…

F. Sionil José

Image

We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or…

F. Sionil Jose

Image

“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are…

F. Sionil José

Image

All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the…

F. Sionil Jose

Image

Explore all 168 F. Sionil José quotes

More Biographies quotes

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In…

Gertrude B. Elion

Image

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

Joseph Campbell

Image

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

Charles Lindbergh

Image

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

Emmylou Harris

Image

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

Samuel Smiles

Image

All Philosophy is Biography

Peter J. Carroll

Image

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive…

Theodore Dalrymple

Image

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or…

Albert Goldbarth

Image

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I…

Ron Chernow