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F. Sionil Jose
Filipino Writer
Born: Dec 3, 1924
Art Nation Past People Writing You
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental. F. Sionil Jose
Culture World Perspective Values Folk Cosmopolitan Above Narrow Very Transcendental Interest Japan Japanese View Origins World View
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941. F. Sionil Jose
War School Broke Out High Eastern High School Student Senior Japan Far University
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. F. Sionil Jose
Food Entrepreneur Enterprises Would Invest Said Were Done Much Manufacturing Preservation
The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos. F. Sionil Jose
Differences Instance Industry Real Very Explains Land Ethnic Among
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. F. Sionil Jose
Alike Admired Poetry Aristocrat Am Peasant
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself. F. Sionil Jose
Music Listening Poet Bored Only Himself Known Want
In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros. F. Sionil Jose
Alone Way Stayed Over Houses Always Camera Just Notebook Traveling
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity. F. Sionil Jose
Strength Made Criticism Object Powerful Also Although Pillar Continuity Very Bureaucracy Japan Japanese Much Many Unique Now Brightest
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal. F. Sionil Jose
Family Important Past Heroic Enshrined Scandal Imperial Never Been Covet Which Japanese Symbols
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition. F. Sionil Jose
Art Our Critical Fact Tradition Art Forms Vibrant In Fact Theater Forms Needed
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms. F. Sionil Jose
Art Me You First Other Ancient Similarities Fact Noblest Perhaps Know Opinion Art Forms Arts In Fact Literature Forms Many Novelist Expressed
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art. F. Sionil Jose
Art Simple Painting Way Those Visual Visual Arts Distrust Simple Way Abstraction Particularly Judging Very Artificial Arts Them
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory. F. Sionil Jose
Religion Memory Envy Important Build Building Nation Past Philosophy Worship Ancestors Those Buddhists Most Important Ingredient Hindus Continuity Which Ingredient Who Believer
We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom. F. Sionil Jose
Wisdom Knowledge Mistake Ego Too Humility Only Shallow Driven Because Understand Human Much
Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower. F. Sionil Jose
Ego Follower President Everyone Later No-One Leaders Mere Sooner Sooner Or Later Wants CEO Professional Chairman Societies Fractured
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. F. Sionil Jose
Life Youth Eastern Abound About Myths Western Legends Stories Literature Eternal Eternal Life Search
As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence. F. Sionil Jose
Down Our Strive Out Must Folk Classics Excellence True Go Up Artists Arts Them Create Roots Should Languages Level Bring
In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom. F. Sionil Jose
Truth Freedom Religion Justice Value End In The End Us Teaches
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel. F. Sionil Jose
Language Too Latin Say Ancient Only Studied Israel Still Replaced Antiquity Did Died Hebrew Which Asia Even Grave Elite Universities
Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past. F. Sionil Jose
Remember Past Christianity Our Distant Worship Ancestors We Cannot Demand Likelihood Also Cannot Then Recall
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick. F. Sionil Jose
Funny People Half Some Crude Look Because Without Trying Acting Fun Lucky Actually Slapstick Bones
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