"When I wake up every morning, I thank…" — F. Sionil Jose
"When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day."
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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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More Day Quotes
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
— Aristotle
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
— Julian Assange
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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