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F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: filipino
Birth: December 3, 1924

Topics

Class Birth Status Determined System

There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn't happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn't we expect teens to?

Girl Time Process Better Person Why

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Words Burn More Deeper Condensed

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

Time Culture People Story Think You

The problem is Donald Trump was an outsider to politics. He really didn't have a team of seasoned political veterans around him who had worked together and knew how to work together and get something done.

Work Together Politics Team Problem

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women Day Abortion Country Never

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

Life Look Bloom Side Wear Carpet

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

People Think You Holocaust Much Jew

I tell founders all the time, 99.9 percent chance of failure.

Failure Time Chance Tell Founders

I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

Patriotism America You Want Will

Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.

Work Time Service Better You Stay

Every time I do a film, I have to make sure that when someone looks at me, they can't recognise Disha. It has to be a character. I want to do strong roles.

Character Time Me Strong Someone

Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!

Head Double Twice Shot Should

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