"The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience."

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Source : Bienvenido Lumbera (1984). “Revaluation: essays on Philippine literature, cinema, and popular culture”

Bienvenido Lumbera

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“If you stick with running, the day will come when you'll want to live forever.”
“Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.”
“Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.”
“Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.”
“There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.”
“Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.”
“Every day is a gift. That said, I've gotten some pretty shitty gifts over the years.”
“The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.”

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