“ An age that needs security guards is, of course, without security. What do we have in the dull old days? Old man janitors in the schools; watchmen in the factories, and the watchman was usually the tu… Nick Joaquín
“ ...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves... Nick Joaquín
“ ...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves... Nick Joaquín
“ No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be this person and no other. The person may change from baby to child, and… Nick Joaquín
“ When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil? Nick Joaquín
“ We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance... What divides us from them is the column of print. Theirs was a total culture… Nick Joaquín
“ Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it. Nick Joaquín
“ This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely… Nick Joaquín
“ Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment. Nick Joaquín
“ If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life... The rift is... between "folk" culture, where the unschoole… Nick Joaquín
