Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Miguel Syjuco

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A man with battered hands is shown to be a craftsman only when he puts them to work.

Miguel Syjuco


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Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back.

Miguel Syjuco


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How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions

Miguel Syjuco

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Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Miguel Syjuco

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Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.

Miguel Syjuco

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Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Miguel Syjuco

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Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Miguel Syjuco

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Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality

Miguel Syjuco

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All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said, spitting a bone atop the pyramidal pile in his bowl, 'are only degrees of theft.

Miguel Syjuco

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