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Quotes by Filipino Authors
"Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude."
"It's only awkward if it matters."
"Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died."
"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
"Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again."
"When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable."
"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."
"When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it."
"If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me."
"Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing."
"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."
"When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops."
"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
"How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?"
"If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?"
"Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together."
"Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind."
"There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about."
"Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do."
"Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself."
"If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room."
"True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism."
"Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else."
"How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident."
"Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps."
"There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it."
"There is more to hear in what is not said."
"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."
"You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre."
"If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat."
"I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf."
"Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling."
"When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming."
"May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself."
"Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them."
"I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down."
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