Quotes by Nick Joaquín

About Nick Joaquín:

Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquín was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for Literature.
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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 unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved t...

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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?

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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 helped us to become more aware of this Filipinone...

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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 involving all the senses, while ours is a culture ...

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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.

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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.

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The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

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Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.

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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 from boy to man, but through all these changes he ...

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Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may at times be moving simultaneously among different epochs?

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The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.

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If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.

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...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...

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...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...

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I love" is a door girls slam in their fathers' faces.

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Author Bio

  • NameNick Joaquín
  • DescriptionFilipino writer
  • BornMay 4, 1917
  • DiedApril 29, 2004
  • CountryPhilippines
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist
  • AwardsNational Artist Of The Philippines