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To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The hardest thing to do in talking to a woman was taking the first step, but the most important thing to do was not to think.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you're a Smurf.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.
— Nguyen Van Thieu
Tears wash away the soot of indifference.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Contrary to some perceptions, revolutionary ideology, even in a tropical country, is not hot. It is cold, man-made.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Even secret armies and political fronts needed clerks
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.
— Vo Nguyen Giap
Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
By now the only part of me now seating were my eyeballs.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
A little hard work, never hurt anyone.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Unlike many, I was not intent on reproducing myself, deliberately or accidentally, since one of myself was more than enough for me to handle.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Marriage is slavery, I said. And when God made us human - if God exists - He didn't intend for us to be slaves to each other.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
One man can change the world, look at Adolf Hitler.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
I would not be myself without writing.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
But to a bureaucrat paper was never just paper. Paper was life!
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
They were average specimens of national manhood, slim and gaunt with deeply tanned skin from riding in jeeps and on motorcycles.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?
— Nguyen Van Thieu
Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell. Why's
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I had won the argument, but somehow, as in our college days, he had won the audience.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
The voyage of a lifetime starts at the windowsill.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Why age chronologically when you can age in reverse order?
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
If you lend the present, it will never be returned. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Easier to get a gun here than to vote or drive. You
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
The tastiest berries are often hidden.Do not despair if you haven't found true love.
Look under the leaves and branches of convention. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
If you follow a recipe for life, spontaneity will be cooked.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
To enter your true self,check your ego at the door. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The truth is inelastic.A lie is infinitely elastic. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
A slogan is just an empty suit, she said. Anyone can wear it. I
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
If you lock the door on sorrow,how will it leave your heart? — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Abled does not mean enabled.Disabled does not mean less abled. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Let's just hope history forgets the snafus.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Having rebound sex to cure a heartbreak is like drinking alcohol to cure a hangover.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
By now the only part of me not sweating were my eyeballs... An X-ray of my skull would have shown a hamster running furiously in an exercise wheel...
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nguyen was a war hawk. The kind of adolescent boy who still thought any problem could be solved by shooting it enough.
— James S.A. Corey
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
I often have discussions with people who demand pluralism and much more. One can discuss these issues, but only within the framework of the law.
— Nguyen Minh Triet
This was the problem with a walk down memory lane. It was almost always foggy, and one was likely to trip and fall.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.
Bask in the sun.
Weatherproof your soul. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Perfection can hide a lot of warts.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Identical twins do not possess identical souls.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
I was finally left with nothing but myself and my thoughts, devious cabdrivers that took me where I did not want to go.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
You Call This One And It's All Over, Baby!
— Scotty Nguyen
Writing makes it easier to cope with life.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The beer had the color and taste of baby's pee, but we followed our usual routine and drank with joyless discipline until we both passed out.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Monoculture is mono for the earth.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.
— Thao Nguyen
Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Passion without perseveranceis fire without fuel. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Shed the tears.Shed the blame and guilt too.
So that your heart mends and heals. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Do precedes done.No precedes none. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
I wanted to wrap her in my arms and brush my eyelashes against hers in butterfly kisses.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over,
love being the new black,
and compassion going viral. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
If nostalgia holds you hostage,the ransom is the present. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
no one asks poor people if they want war.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!
— Nguyen Van Thieu
When you eat too much chocolate, you get sick of it.When you drink too much champagne, you get sick of it.
Gorge yourself on fear. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Wars never die, I said. They just go to sleep.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
The greatest mistake is in not being aware that others are Christ. There are very many people who will not discover it until their last day.
— Nguyen Van Thuan
An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Setting sail using different moral compasses causes a relationship to go in circles.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
If you fatally kill fate,your life sentence will be
to steer the reins of choice. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
There is always something. That is confession's nature.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
To feel common after a common cold is quite uncommon.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
For her, he swallowed the black tea of exile.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
At the blind date,deafen your ears
to hear the words
spoken with her eyes. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
I am the best person in the universe.
— Kendrick Nguyen
