"We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it."

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F. Sionil JosÃ©

#Writing Quotes #Literature Quotes

“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”
“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
“My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.”
“When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.”
“The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.”
“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.”
“You define beauty for yourself, society doesnâ€™t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.”
“There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life”

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