“ 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… 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
“ 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 eBay power seller o… 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
“ 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 ac… 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
“ 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 inde… 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 forgi… 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
“ Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it Miguel Syjuco
“ The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task… 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… Miguel Syjuco
“ Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be. Miguel Syjuco
“ Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness. 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
“ 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. Miguel Syjuco
