F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

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• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

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• I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.

  

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• All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

  

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• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

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• It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.

  

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• My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

  

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• Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.

  

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• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

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• I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

  

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• No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

  

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• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

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• You who speak languages, you are such liars.

  

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• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

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• My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.

  

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• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

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• Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.

  

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• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

  

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• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

  

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• Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

  

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• What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.

  

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• I'm certainly no bohemian hippie, and I do love luxury.

  

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• Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Rich
  • Class
  • Luxury