"I do not want to be bored listening……" — F. Sionil Jose
"I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself."
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F. Sionil Jose
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58 Quotes by F. Sionil Jose
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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…
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They…
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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…
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often…
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct.…
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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…
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they…
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how…
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest…
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in…
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
— Renata Adler
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I…
— Theodore Bikel
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not…
— Christina Aguilera
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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
— Danny Boyle
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I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do.…
— Tom Brady
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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