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Quotes by Filipino Authors
"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
"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 you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?"
"Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane."
"When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable."
"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."
"Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones."
"If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why."
"Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else."
"The horizon changes but the sun does not."
"Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience."
"One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge."
"Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing."
"Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together."
"There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb."
"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."
"Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much."
"If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams."
"How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?"
"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."
"If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me."
"How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident."
"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."
"Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind."
"There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about."
"I had no money to start,For Jack decreed in his pride:The Caveman's wife didn't work - It was his job to provide.A brief reminder right here:Let men believe they are shrewd,But even women of oldEmbroidered mittens for food."
"Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude."
"Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps."
"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 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."
"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."
"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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