Asuncion David Maramba > Quotes

“To write well, one must have leisure: leisure to read, leisure to think, to talk things over, to talk oneself in and out of position, to compose and rewrite and polish, to travel, to observe, to listen, to let the sounds and voices sink into one’s consciousness until they are ready to come out again, having “suffered a sea-change.” . . . [L]eisure is an expensive commodity.
—Philippine Literature: Perpetually Inchoate by Miguel A. Bernard, S.J.”
― Asuncion David Maramba, Philippine Contemporary Literature In English and Filipino

“Since we have grown accustomed to borrowing our ideas, we have lost much of our capacity for independence and originality of thought.
—From What Are Filipinos Like? by Leon Ma. Guerrero”
― Asuncion David Maramba, Philippine Contemporary Literature In English and Filipino

“Huwag sabihing “Ganyan nga ang búhay!” Sa halip, laging itanong, “Dapat nga bang ganyan?”
—Mula sa May Katwiran ang Katwiran ni Rolando S. Tinio”
― Asuncion David Maramba, Philippine Contemporary Literature In English and Filipino

“Mother: You wear your scars like medals.
Leon: They are the only things he ever gave me.
—From Turn Red the Sea by Wilfredo D. Nolledo, p. 266”
― Asuncion David Maramba, Philippine Contemporary Literature In English and Filipino

“[W]hich is better, loyalty to a man or commitment to God? The soul of a man can sometimes remake the morality of our time.
—From Turn Red the Sea by Wilfredo D. Nolledo, p. 261”
― Asuncion David Maramba, Philippine Contemporary Literature In English and Filipino

“[I]yon lámang nakararanas ng mga lihim na kalungkutan ang maaaring makakilala ng mga lihim na kaligayahan.
—Mula sa Kuwento ni “Mabuti” ni Geniveva Edroza-Matute”
― Asuncion David Maramba, Philippine Contemporary Literature In English and Filipino

“We have to accept the passing, as well as the permanent.
—From Turn Red the Sea by Wilfredo D. Nolledo, p. 265”
― Asuncion David Maramba, Philippine Contemporary Literature In English and Filipino

“[A]nger is sometimes weakness—or love.
—From Turn Red the Sea by Wilfredo D. Nolledo, p. 257”
― Asuncion David Maramba, Philippine Contemporary Literature In English and Filipino

“But at the time of death, when a man searches for what is fundamental in himself, he found the Faith again.
—Rizal’s Parnassian Years by Fernando S. David”
― Asuncion David Maramba, Philippine Contemporary Literature In English and Filipino