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Quotes by Filipino Authors
"If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me."
"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."
"If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?"
"One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge."
"When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather."
"Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind."
"Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value."
"How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention."
"Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it."
"Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together."
"Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died."
"When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable."
"There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about."
"Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again."
"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."
"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."
"How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident."
"You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary."
"Dear World,I exist.Deal with it."
"True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism."
"Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else."
"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
"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."
"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
"There is more to hear in what is not said."
"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."
"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."
"How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?"
"When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming."
"The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again."
"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."
"Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way."
"Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about."
"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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