"Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its……" — F. Sionil Jose
"Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental."
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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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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in…
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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so…
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I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
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I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is…
— Bjork
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The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition…
— Jurgen Habermas
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To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
— Tycho Brahe
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If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and…
— Kenny Smith
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I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination…
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.
— Michael Urie
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My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn…
— Sylvia Day
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