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Miguel Syjuco quotes: I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.

I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.

Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: How do such flaws become beautiful in the right person?

How do such flaws become beautiful in the right person?

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.

Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Love isn't based on gratitude. Respect isn't based on debt.

Love isn't based on gratitude. Respect isn't based on debt.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: The little things, you know, eventually become everything.

The little things, you know, eventually become everything.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: You were so beautiful when you were young. So much idealism it was inspiring.

You were so beautiful when you were young. So much idealism it was inspiring.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Sure, each night we staggered home, unfired, unglazed, already broken without knowing it. But at least we were trying.

Sure, each night we staggered home, unfired, unglazed, already broken without knowing it. But at least we were trying.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: I'm making this confession without hope for absolution.One morning, I pretended to go crazy. Perhaps in pretending, I proved myself so.

I'm making this confession without hope for absolution.
One morning, I pretended to go crazy. Perhaps in pretending, I proved myself so.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: My absence was gradual, until one day it was complete.

My absence was gradual, until one day it was complete.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven.

Guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Because falling, if you live in the moment,is really just flying, at least until you read the ground

Because falling, if you live in the moment,is really just flying, at least until you read the ground

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Sometimes, courage is really just cowardice. Sometimes the bravest thing is to let go.

Sometimes, courage is really just cowardice. Sometimes the bravest thing is to let go.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life.

Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: To be angry implies you care

To be angry implies you care

Miguel Syjuco quotes: All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said ... 'are only degrees of theft.

All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said ... 'are only degrees of theft.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: morality... comes at a price.

morality... comes at a price.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we'll be.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we'll be.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?

Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family

As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family

Miguel Syjuco quotes: History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: A man with battered hands is shown to be a craftsman only when he puts them to work.

A man with battered hands is shown to be a craftsman only when he puts them to work.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.

Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: A writer has to talk about the things that go untalked about

A writer has to talk about the things that go untalked about

Miguel Syjuco quotes: And yet,from the air you think her peaceful and unflustered. On the ground is a place tangled with good intentions and a tyrannical will to live.

And yet,from the air you think her peaceful and unflustered. On the ground is a place tangled with good intentions and a tyrannical will to live.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: When you're unhappy with your life, you become more selfish with it.

When you're unhappy with your life, you become more selfish with it.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father.

A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Love and honesty don't mix.

Love and honesty don't mix.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: I transform fiction into memory.

I transform fiction into memory.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: How could a feeling that leaves you so hollow be a pain that is so sharp?

How could a feeling that leaves you so hollow be a pain that is so sharp?

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Let me welcome you to my first country, my Third World.

Let me welcome you to my first country, my Third World.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality

Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality

Miguel Syjuco quotes: It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale

Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Just because an ideology dies doesn't mean the value of its ideas is nullified

Just because an ideology dies doesn't mean the value of its ideas is nullified

Miguel Syjuco quotes: I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Miguel Syjuco quotes: I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

Miguel Syjuco quotes: Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back.

Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back.