"I wish I could be honest and true,……" — F. Sionil José
"I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all."
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F. Sionil José
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