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...the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing.
— Viet Thanh 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
This particularly unfashionable neighborhood was a shady one despite the absence of trees, and
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Contrary to some perceptions, revolutionary ideology, even in a tropical country, is not hot. It is cold, man-made.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Even secret armies and political fronts needed clerks
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game,
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
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
If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
One did not depend on marines for good table manners. One depended on them to have the right instincts when it came to matters of life and death.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
One must be grateful for one's education no matter how it arrives.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I could live without television, but not without books.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Always resent, never relent.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I always assume a man is at least a latent homosexual until proven otherwise
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
They lived in this fashion for most of the year before the credit line of her patience finally reached its limit.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both. At
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.
— 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
people who do not get the joke are dangerous people indeed
— 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
These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac.
— 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
With that, the conversation finally exhausted itself, leaving us to nuzzle our cocktails with the affection one reserved for puppies.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Disarming an idealist was easy
— Viet Thanh 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
The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I wanted to wrap her in my arms and brush my eyelashes against hers in butterfly kisses.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Besides my conscience, my liver was the most abused part of my body.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Revolutionaries are insomniacs, too afraid of history's nightmare to sleep, too troubled by the world's ills to be less than awake.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Music and singing keeps us alive, give us hope. If we can feel, we know we can live.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
So I fell in love with Phi Phi, a harmless enough emotion. I was wont to fall in love two or three times a year and was now well past due.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
no one asks poor people if they want war.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Wars never die, I said. They just go to sleep.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Your problem isn't that you think too much; your problem is letting everyone know what you're thinking.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
There is always something. That is confession's nature.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
For her, he swallowed the black tea of exile.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
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
We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.
— Viet Thanh 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
blurring the lines between us and them can be a worthy behavior. After
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Don't you see that Americans need the anti-American? While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also better to be hated than ignored.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?
— Viet Thanh 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
Every paranoid person is right at least once, said the tall sergeant. When he dies.
— Viet Thanh 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
Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
(Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.) At
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I had won the argument, but somehow, as in our college days, he had won the audience.
— 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
Easier to get a gun here than to vote or drive. You
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others?
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Whatever may be noble and heroic in war is found in us, and whatever is evil and horrific in war is also found in us.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
He tried to forget what he'd discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
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
A slogan is just an empty suit, she said. Anyone can wear it. I
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
The point was simply this: the most important thing we could never forget was that we could never forget.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
When your grandchildren ask you what you did during the war, you can say, I made this movie.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Let's just hope history forgets the snafus.
— Viet Thanh 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
Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nothing is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
breathtakingly lewd exhibition of modesty.
— Viet Thanh 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
That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen