Miguel Syjuco
Writer
1976-11-17
Books by Miguel Syjuco
-
Ilustrado
View on Amazon
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Quotes by Miguel Syjuco
-
I transform fiction into memory.
Read quote -
Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?
Read quote -
History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
Read quote -
Love and honesty don't mix.
Read quote -
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
Read quote -
Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.
Read quote -
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
Read quote -
History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
Read quote -
Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.
Read quote -
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
Read quote -
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
Read quote -
Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?
Read quote -
Love and honesty don't mix.
Read quote -
I transform fiction into memory.
Read quote -
I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.
Read quote -
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
Read quote -
The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.
Read quote -
When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.
Read quote -
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
Read quote -
'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness... The book satirises archetypes from across Filipino society, and I felt that the least I could do was offer myself up, too.
Read quote