Miguel Syjuco

Miguel Syjuco

"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."
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"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."
Miguel Syjuco
"I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an e Bay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet."
Miguel Syjuco
"Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it"
Miguel Syjuco
"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"
Miguel Syjuco
"A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have."
Miguel Syjuco
"I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change."
Miguel Syjuco
"Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child"
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
"morality... comes at a price."
Miguel Syjuco
"Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective."
Miguel Syjuco
"To be angry implies you care"
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
"...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both."
Miguel Syjuco
"How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions"
Miguel Syjuco
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