Miguel Syjuco quotes - page 2

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand. (Miguel Syjuco)
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. View quote
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Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective. View quote
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Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago. View quote
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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. View quote
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If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves. View quote
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The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago. View quote
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Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it. View quote
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It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. View quote
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Love and honesty don't mix. View quote
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