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    Paz Márquez-Benítez

    Filipino writer (1894–1983)

    Paz Márquez-Benítez (March 3, 1894 – November 10, 1983) was a Filipino short-story writer, educator and editor.[1][2][3] Her career as a woman educator as well as her contributions as a writer are seen as an important step within the advancement of women in professional careers as well as in the development of Philippine literature.[3] She was also a beauty queen.

    During her career as a writer, Marquez-Benitez wrote short stories critical of American Imperialism. She is most known by her short story Dead Stars (1925) in which the two main characters are displayed as allegories to American imperialism in order to portray the slow decay of Philippine heritage.[3][4] Her only other known published work is A Night in the Hills (1925). Even though she had only two published works her writings would be regarded as the first steps of Philippine literature moving into the

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    Dead Stars Quotes

    “I should like to see your home town."
    "There is nothing to see--little crooked streets, bunut
    roofs with ferns growing on them, and sometimes
    squashes."
    That was the background. It made her seem less
    detached, less unrelated, yet withal more distant, as if
    that background claimed her and excluded him.
    "Nothing? There is you."
    "Oh, me? But I am here."
    "I will not go, of course, until you are there."

    "We live on Calle Luz, a little street with trees."
    "Could I find that?"
    "If you don't ask for Miss del Valle," she smiled teasingly.
    "I'll inquire about--"
    "What?"
    "The house of the prettiest girl in the town."
    "There is where you will lose your way." Then she turned
    serious. "Now, that is not quite sincere."
    "It is," he averred slowly, but emphatically.
    "I thought you, at least, would not say such things."
    "Pretty--pretty--a foolish word! But there is none other
    more handy I did not mean that quite--"
    "Are you withdrawing the compliment?"
    "Re-enforcing it, m

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    This is a story that I encountered way back in high school. A friend asked me to post this here. It was a lot längre to type than inom had anticipated and getting down the first fem pages took me almost an hour. Like the "Wedding Dance", I got this from the book "Fourteen Love Stories" edited by Jose Dalisay Jr. and Angela R. Lacuesta.

    This is a story written way back in 1925, and declared as the first Filipino modern short story in English. The author had only two published short stories, but that didn't stop her from becoming an icon in Philippine literary history.

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