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It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.Miguel Syjuco
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Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.Miguel Syjuco
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To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.Miguel Syjuco
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Love and honesty don’t mix.Miguel Syjuco
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History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.Miguel Syjuco
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Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?Miguel Syjuco
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I transform fiction into memory.Miguel Syjuco
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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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Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.Miguel Syjuco
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Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.Miguel Syjuco
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Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.Miguel Syjuco
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When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.Miguel Syjuco
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The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience.. .Miguel Syjuco