Sin Quotes

“Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.”
― F. Sionil José, Sin

“This was one lesson that the war taught me - that every event in time presents opportunities that are recognizable only to those with enough sensibility to see them, that it is possible to thrive in adversity in the needs of the rulers are pandered to.”
― F. Sionil José, Sin

“Like him, I had gotten to meet the important people in government and out. I had helped them, too, contributed not just to their political agenda but also to their own pockets, and they had all responded—the reparations, the lumber concessions, the licenses and franchises and the approval of Congress—even my income tax deductions. I had a battery of brilliant people, most of them lawyers, who knew all the loop-holes, and some of them even proclaimed themselves as nationalists—I lured them, paid them homage, co-opted them, then used them all.”
― F. Sionil José, Sins

“Afterward, when I started taking pictures, I realized that she had photogenic features and her face could have easily propelled her to stardom, our movies being what they are, nothing but vehicles for lousy actors and actresses with mestizo features.”
― F. Sionil José, Sins