Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are … - Miguel Syjuco
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are …
- Miguel Syjuco
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective. - Miguel Syjuco
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cath… - Miguel Syjuco
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cath…
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a sing… - Miguel Syjuco
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a sing…
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. - Miguel Syjuco
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
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
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any r… - Miguel Syjuco
If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any r…
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. - Miguel Syjuco
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago. - Miguel Syjuco
Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.
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