F. Sionil Jose Quotes
What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.
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I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I am a Bay Area guy, no question.
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After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
