Miguel Syjuco Quotes

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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.

Miguel Syjuco
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
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?

Miguel Syjuco
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

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

Miguel Syjuco
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.

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

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

Miguel Syjuco
Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.

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

Miguel Syjuco
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.

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

Miguel Syjuco