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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Because Say Something Want Write You

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: According Aches Any Because Bitter Enough Family Go Heal Like Material More Quarrels Rules Skin Splits Things Wounds

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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

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

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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Admired Always Because Become Like Medicine Priesthood Same Teacher Teachers Teaching Vocation Want Wealth Writing You

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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

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

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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

Topics: Because Driven Ego Human Humility Knowledge Mistake Much Only Shallow Too Understand Wisdom

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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

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

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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Artifice Because Every Horribly Little Media Morning Noise Our Papers Radio Read Same Shallow Them

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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

Topics: Acting Actually Because Bones Crude Fun Funny Half Look Lucky People Some Trying Without

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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.

~Fab Five Freddy

Topics: Acting Actually Because Being Bronx Cat Folks Handful Me People Perceived Style Wild

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