Syjuco Augusto Quotes

#1. 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.' #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#2. I studied in New York. I fell in love with an Australian-born, half-Filipina girl. So we moved to Australia when she went to her university and I moved with her. We moved to Montreal because she was going to take her year abroad, and I wanted to see if I could keep on writing there. It's really hard to make it as a writer in the Philippines. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#3. 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. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#4. It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. #Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

#5. The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words. #Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

#6. An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances ... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy. #Quote by Augusto De Luca

#7. What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#8. The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it. #Quote by Augusto Boal

#9. Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#10. Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties ... I believe that commitment and technical skill can be achieved by means of one's own will and study , while fantasy and passion are more valuable because they are innate and inescapably peculiar assets. #Quote by Augusto De Luca

#11. Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. #Quote by Augusto Pinochet

#12. The little things, you know, eventually become everything. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#13. We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity
governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#14. Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible. #Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

#15. I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture. #Quote by Augusto De Luca

#16. I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem. #Quote by Augusto De Luca

#17. 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. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#18. Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#19. The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness. #Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

#20. It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#21. With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#22. Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#23. It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass. #Quote by Augusto Boal

#24. Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing. #Quote by Augusto Pinochet

#25. To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. #Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

#26. I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins. #Quote by Augusto De Luca

#27. I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face. #Quote by Augusto Pinochet

#28. The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. #Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

#29. Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man to observe himself in action, in activity. Man can see himself in the act of seeing, in the act of acting, in the act of feeling, the act of thinking. Feel himself feeling, think himself thinking. #Quote by Augusto Boal

#30. History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco

#31. 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. #Quote by Miguel Syjuco