November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

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• F. Sionil Jose:

  The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertain

• F. Sionil Jose:

  What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

• F. Sionil Jose:

  To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if t

• F. Sionil Jose:

  You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts

• F. Sionil Jose:

  We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as J

• F. Sionil Jose:

  In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial cons

• F. Sionil Jose:

  Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know

• F. Sionil Jose:

  We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and t

• F. Sionil Jose:

  I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which

• F. Sionil Jose:

  We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand th