"Just because you have so much to give……" — F. Sionil José
"Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving."
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F. Sionil José
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19 Quotes by F. Sionil José
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I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I…
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November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to…
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I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or…
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Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will,…
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We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
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The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal…
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Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are…
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Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't.…
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Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually…
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I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious…
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