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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Communication Created Element Epics Even Exists Language Literature Primary Riddles Societies Songs Tool Which

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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

Topics: Equally History Leaders Meant Meant To Be People Them Weak

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Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Acquire Appreciation Art Belonging Community Craftsmanship Creative Excellent Folk Hands How Identities Important Measure Most Our People Pride Skills Soon Strengthen The Most Important Trained Use Well Which Will

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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

Topics: Audience Feel Hundreds Living Lovers Mere Music Pakistani Passion Poetry Rhythm Russian Understand Urdu Warmth I Can

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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Britain British British Empire Created Devious Differences Directly Divisions Due Duplicity Empire Ethnic Imperial Influenced Larger Much Problem Reason Religious Sense Violence Whatever

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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Dictators Easily Famous Forget Guard Gun Holds Lowest Power Rich Security Transitory Who

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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.

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Topics: Done Enterprises Entrepreneur Food Invest Manufacturing Much Preservation Said Were Would

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Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Age Comfortable Cost Decided Deepening Examined Face Familiar Final Followed Friends Hindrance How Imagining Look Middle Middle Age Mirror Mug Often Old Past Retain Should Some Stretched Suggested Suggestion Too

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

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Always Economic Issue Moral Never Political Poverty Remember

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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Afflicted Always Coastal Could Drops Grandparents Had Hunger Land Left Like Longer Made Many Mountain Narrow Often Plain Poor Sea Sustain Them Village Where

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Biography

Nationality: Filipino

Type: Writer

Born: December 3rd, 1924

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