Miguel Syjuco Quotes
Miguel Syjuco Quotes
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
3079 How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions
3301 It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
2971 Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.
2202 Love and honesty don’t mix.
2037 History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
3181 As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family
4105 The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow-the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago
3362 All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said, spitting a bone atop the pyramidal pile in his bowl, 'are only degrees of theft.
4235 I transform fiction into memory.
1509 We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity-governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.
4524 Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality
1399 Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.
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