Quotes by : F. Sionil José

Only with steadfast memories can we now be strong so as to undo the mistakes of the past, to begin anew....

There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why....

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal....

...the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in....

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness....

I was shocked at the revelation of her vaulting ambition, her greed. I should have loathed her or, knowing....

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid....

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is....

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