Miguel Syjuco Quotes

• A veces uno espera demasiado el momento perfecto antes de hacer la foto. Nunca te das cuenta de que lo que necesitabas era cambiar de perspectiva.

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  Patience, Long, Perfect

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.437, Pan Macmillan

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• El posmodernismo fue una reacción al modernismo. Donde el modernismo buscaba la objetividad, el postmodernismo buscaba la subjetividad. Donde el modernismo buscaba una verdad singular, el posmodernismo buscaba la multiplicidad de verdades.

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  Objectivity, Subjectivity, Reactions

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• History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

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  Telling The Truth, Martyr, Changed

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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

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  Home, Away From Home, Honest

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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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.

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  Home, Long, Champion

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.144, Macmillan

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

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  Lost Love, Lost, Remembered

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan

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• No se puede dar vida a un lugar no escrito sin perder algo sustancial. Manila es la cuna, el cementerio, la memoria. La meca, la catedral, el burdel. El centro comercial, el urinario, la discoteca. Apenas hablo en metáfora. Es la más impermeable de las ciudades. ¿Cómo se transmite todo eso?

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  Memories, Cities, Shopping

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• Si nuestro mayor temor es hundirnos solos y sin memoria, la brutalidad que el tiempo infligirá a cada uno de nosotros siempre será más fuerte que las turbias olas de cualquier río.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Running, Fear, Rivers

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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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.

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  Real, Carácter, Gente

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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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.

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  Exercise, Should Have, Decision

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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

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  Long Ago, Long, Not Alone

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.18, Macmillan

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

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  Men, Angry Man, Littles

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.228, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Believe, Years, Literature

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• Cuando era joven, me pasaba los días y las noches intentando impresionar a las generaciones futuras. Los gasté. Se fueron. Todo porque tenía un miedo mortal a ser olvidado. Y luego vino el arrepentimiento. Lo peor de todo lo peor.

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  Regret, Night, Trying

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.399, Pan Macmillan

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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

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  Tyrants, Humanity, Tails

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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

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  Demand, Good Things, Stem

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.429, Pan Macmillan

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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.

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  Want, Human Condition, Angst

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.208, Macmillan

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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.

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  Powerful, Teaching, Iraq

  "Author Q&A: Miguel Syjuco revisits the Philippines' troubled past in Ilustrado". Interview with Brian Lynch, www.straight.com. October 28, 2010.

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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.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Opportunity, Nurse, Different

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

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  These Days, Kill Me, Justification

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Love and honesty don't mix.

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  Honesty, Love And Honesty

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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