Filipino-authors Quote by F. Sionil José

“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

“Rain in Metro Manila is like a love affair: Short and fleeting; or torrid and flooding with tragic casualties left in its wake.”

— John Pucay

“Kung pareparehas kaming special, sino pa ang special?”

— Eros S. Atalia

“Order gives birth to constants, and constants yield expectations. When two people have unprotected sex and both are fertile, and the sperm reaches the…

— John Pucay

“Meron bang taong walang itsura? Anu yun, abstract?”

— Eros S. Atalia

“Online dating is not bad. Just tedious and mediocre. It's like going to the karinderya and they've got plenty of ulam (viands) but you…

— John Pucay

“I lived in a big bunkhouse of thirty farm workers with Leroy, who was a stranger to me in many ways because he was…

— Carlos Bulosan

“Smart shaming affects society at large by advertising mediocrity, villainizing the intelligent, and idolizing the foolish.”

— E. Ravago

“Hindi lahat ng tama, totoo.”

— Eros S. Atalia

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

— David Shannon

Sometimes, we should know that ex is like a history. A history is a past. That certain people will never forget.

— Shakay Kaichi

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

— Laura Esquivel

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

— Ernest Dimnet

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the…

— Frederick Jackson Turner

Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified…

— Mark Hopkins