"I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado."

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Miguel Syjuco

#Believe Quotes #Years Quotes #Literature Quotes

“It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.”
“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
“It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.”
“They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.”
“Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.”
“Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.”

Source : "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.
“Bands that have positive lyrics that give people hope, I applaud them, you know I think we need to see more bands come out like that. I think it is great.”
“No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.”

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