Quotes by : Nick Joaquín

Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man....

An age that needs security guards is, of course, without security. What do we have in the dull old days?....

We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing....

If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.

If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities....

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what....

...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until....

Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to....

Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino after 1565 we can be nothing but....

...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until....