#manila

You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that? ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#philippines #life

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#gorilla #i #killer #manila #thriller

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#envelope #filed #get #life #life is a

For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#filed #get #life #life is a #manila

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#crime rate #development #era #golden #had