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Miguel Syjuco

Miguel Syjuco Books

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Miguel Syjuco is a Filipino writer known for his novels and short story collections. His works often explore themes of identity, cultural conflict, and globalization. Born on November 17, 1976, Syjuco graduated from Harvard University and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University.

Ilustrado: A Novel

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“Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child”

Independence Story

Author:Miguel Syjuco

“A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.”

Author:Miguel Syjuco

“How did we become so prejudiced by our idiosyncrasies?...We shared the same languages, but spoke of worlds so subtly different that language was not enough. Over time the big things were left unsaid; they gave way to the little things, those once-endearing imperfections that had somewhere become deal breakers.”

Love Idiosyncrasies

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“Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.”

Reactions Objectivity Modernism Subjectivity Multiplicity Postmodernism Post Modernism

Author:Miguel Syjuco

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

Men Littles Angry Rage Angry Man

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“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.”

Firsts States Nations United Powerful Fiction United States Teaching Building Tools Iraq Afghanistan Vietnam Initials Very Powerful Philippines Nation Building Teaching History

Author:Miguel Syjuco

“I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.”

Years Believe Purpose Literature Four Effects Four Years

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“I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.”

Different Opportunity Gone Nurse Maids Filipino Labourers

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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.”

Trying Young Night Gone Generations Worst Regret Forgotten Impress Worst Things Future Generation Day And Night

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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.”

Long Sometimes Moments Waiting Realizing Perfect Perspective Needed Patience Perfect Moments Snapping

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“Love and honesty don't mix.”

Honesty Love And Honesty

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“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

These Days Justification Kill Me Strangeness Clinicals

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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.”

Want Humans Conditions Human Condition Angst Purgatory

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“Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.”

Asks Lost Remembered Lost Love

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“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.”

People Ifs Real Character Real Life Unreal Fictional Character

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“Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.”

Long Long Ago Not Alone

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“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

Home Honest Away From Home

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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.”

World Should Literature Decision Moral Exercise Should Have Constant Leap Ethical Grievance Moral Decisions

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

Demand Good Things Stem

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“History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”

Changed Telling The Truth Martyr

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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”

Today Humanity Turns Lost Loses Position Tomorrow Slave Cycles Tyrants Tails Chasing Proletariat

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“You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?”

Doe Memories Cities Losing Metaphor Shopping Cradle Malls Cathedrals Graveyard Unwritten Mecca Manila

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“I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

Feels Long Enough Home Comfort Safe Filled Champion Enjoyable Homecoming

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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.”

Ifs Running Fear Rivers Stronger Wave Brutality Greatest Fear Our Greatest Fear

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Born: November 17, 1976
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 24

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