"When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things."

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Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.399, Pan Macmillan

Miguel Syjuco

#Regret Quotes #Night Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.”
“But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.”
“Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised.”
“Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.”
“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”
“The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.”
“If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself”
“From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.”

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