"My wife and I often visit Rosales and……" — F. Sionil Jose
"My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame."
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a…
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live…
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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in…
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Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
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Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In…
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When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go…
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Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
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