- Nov 07, 2020
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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
- Coastal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020