47 F. Sionil Jose Quotes for You to Enjoy

F. Sionil Jose

Filipino Writer

Born: Dec 3, 1924

Art Nation Past People Writing You

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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future. F. Sionil Jose

Future Nation Young Enrich Minds Touch Classroom Shape Beyond Well Souls Hearts Influence Teachers Who

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able. F. Sionil Jose

Become Think Earth Enslaved Must Able Only Shallow Glitter Goods Because Material Materialism Grab Gold Which While Us Much Gross Reason Therefore Satisfy

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral. F. Sionil Jose

Remember Political Poverty Moral Economic Never Always Issue

November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape. F. Sionil Jose

Christmas November Weather Country Starts Harvest Parts Glow Began Precedes Festive Which Rice Landscape Cool Many Brighten

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little. F. Sionil Jose

History Reading Philosophy Know Little Much

You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window. F. Sionil Jose

Work Time You Writing Looking Live Out Window Writer He Simply Contemplation Devote Enable Said Often Manner Should Even

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize. F. Sionil Jose

Funny Genius Write Takes Particular Most Readers Realize

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich. F. Sionil Jose

Class Luxury Rich Contemplation Very Middle Middle Class

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. F. Sionil Jose

Music Passion Living Hundreds Russian Poetry Mere Feel Understand Audience Rhythm Lovers Urdu Roomful Warmth Pakistani

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience. F. Sionil Jose

Life Art Character Entertainment Heart Experience Behavior Achieve Playwright Finally Must Critique Construct Know Most Make Himself How Subject Itself Intense Human Theater Human Experience Meaningful Depth Play Mundane Universality

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity. F. Sionil Jose

Humanity Our Part Course Egoism Much

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. F. Sionil Jose

Own Furniture Poetry Like Pieces Judged Authors Short Fiction Stories Short Stories Autonomous Created Should Stand Usefulness Elegance Novels

Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves. F. Sionil Jose

People Matter Will Rich Starts Saving State Industrialization Does How Very Formation Capital Themselves Created Enforcing

I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass. F. Sionil Jose

Grass Wild Born Most Houses Were Village Species

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. F. Sionil Jose

People Young Our Pleasurable Draw Those Out Find Inspiration Writers Particularly Learn Talking Because Felt Always Years Nostalgia Young People Them Much Aspiring Oldies

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings. F. Sionil Jose

You Integrity Try Word Important Single Breakfast Defines Writers Perhaps Most Because Human Just Human Beings Beings Keep

Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry. F. Sionil Jose

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders. F. Sionil Jose

Looking France Crippled Ghosts Shakespeare Writers Chaucer Feel Over Unsure Hugo China Victor Confucius Themselves Shoulders England Imagine

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. F. Sionil Jose

History People Weak Leaders Equally Them Meant Meant To Be

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. F. Sionil Jose

Work Truth Important Nation Books Harsh Those About Only Understand How Just Arts Literature Us Ignore Who Whole

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