F. Sionil Jose Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
F. Sionil Jose quotes and sayings page 6 (writer). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 75 we have.
“This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.”
“I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.”
“I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.”
“We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.”
“We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.”
“The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.”
“A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.”
“Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.”
“I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.”
“I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.”
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