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Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: ...the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing. ...the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: This particularly unfashionable neighborhood was a shady one despite the absence of trees, and This particularly unfashionable neighborhood was a shady one despite the absence of trees, and
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Contrary to some perceptions, revolutionary ideology, even in a tropical country, is not hot. It is cold, man-made. Contrary to some perceptions, revolutionary ideology, even in a tropical country, is not hot. It is cold, man-made.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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 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 quotes: Even secret armies and political fronts needed clerks Even secret armies and political fronts needed clerks
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game, happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game,
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: By now the only part of me now seating were my eyeballs. By now the only part of me now seating were my eyeballs.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth? If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored. While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: One must be grateful for one's education no matter how it arrives. One must be grateful for one's education no matter how it arrives.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: I could live without television, but not without books. I could live without television, but not without books.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Always resent, never relent. Always resent, never relent.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I always assume a man is at least a latent homosexual until proven otherwise I always assume a man is at least a latent homosexual until proven otherwise
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: They lived in this fashion for most of the year before the credit line of her patience finally reached its limit. They lived in this fashion for most of the year before the credit line of her patience finally reached its limit.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both. At One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both. At
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented. They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Unlike many, I was not intent on reproducing myself, deliberately or accidentally, since one of myself was more than enough for me to handle. 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 quotes: people who do not get the joke are dangerous people indeed people who do not get the joke are dangerous people indeed
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac. These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: With that, the conversation finally exhausted itself, leaving us to nuzzle our cocktails with the affection one reserved for puppies. With that, the conversation finally exhausted itself, leaving us to nuzzle our cocktails with the affection one reserved for puppies.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools. Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories. In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before. This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Disarming an idealist was easy Disarming an idealist was easy
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity. Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: But to a bureaucrat paper was never just paper. Paper was life! But to a bureaucrat paper was never just paper. Paper was life!
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid. The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth. Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: I wanted to wrap her in my arms and brush my eyelashes against hers in butterfly kisses. I wanted to wrap her in my arms and brush my eyelashes against hers in butterfly kisses.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Besides my conscience, my liver was the most abused part of my body. Besides my conscience, my liver was the most abused part of my body.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God. If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Revolutionaries are insomniacs, too afraid of history's nightmare to sleep, too troubled by the world's ills to be less than awake. 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 quotes: Music and singing keeps us alive, give us hope. If we can feel, we know we can live. Music and singing keeps us alive, give us hope. If we can feel, we know we can live.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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 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 quotes: no one asks poor people if they want war. no one asks poor people if they want war.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Wars never die, I said. They just go to sleep. Wars never die, I said. They just go to sleep.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Your problem isn't that you think too much; your problem is letting everyone know what you're thinking. Your problem isn't that you think too much; your problem is letting everyone know what you're thinking.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary. She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: There is always something. That is confession's nature. There is always something. That is confession's nature.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: For her, he swallowed the black tea of exile. For her, he swallowed the black tea of exile.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: This was the problem with a walk down memory lane. It was almost always foggy, and one was likely to trip and fall. 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 quotes: We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts. We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live. We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: I was finally left with nothing but myself and my thoughts, devious cabdrivers that took me where I did not want to go. 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 quotes: blurring the lines between us and them can be a worthy behavior. After blurring the lines between us and them can be a worthy behavior. After
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat? Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Every paranoid person is right at least once, said the tall sergeant. When he dies. Every paranoid person is right at least once, said the tall sergeant. When he dies.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one. 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 quotes: Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud. Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: (Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.) At (Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.) At
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: I had won the argument, but somehow, as in our college days, he had won the audience. I had won the argument, but somehow, as in our college days, he had won the audience.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: They were average specimens of national manhood, slim and gaunt with deeply tanned skin from riding in jeeps and on motorcycles. They were average specimens of national manhood, slim and gaunt with deeply tanned skin from riding in jeeps and on motorcycles.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Easier to get a gun here than to vote or drive. You Easier to get a gun here than to vote or drive. You
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others? Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others?
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything. Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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. 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 quotes: give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them. While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: He tried to forget what he'd discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake. He tried to forget what he'd discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell. Why's 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 quotes: A slogan is just an empty suit, she said. Anyone can wear it. I A slogan is just an empty suit, she said. Anyone can wear it. I
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa. A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: The point was simply this: the most important thing we could never forget was that we could never forget. The point was simply this: the most important thing we could never forget was that we could never forget.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: When your grandchildren ask you what you did during the war, you can say, I made this movie. When your grandchildren ask you what you did during the war, you can say, I made this movie.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Let's just hope history forgets the snafus. Let's just hope history forgets the snafus.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: 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... 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 quotes: Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously. Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Nothing is ever so expensive as what is offered for free. Nothing is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: breathtakingly lewd exhibition of modesty. breathtakingly lewd exhibition of modesty.
Viet Thanh Nguyen quotes: Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt. 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 quotes: That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others. That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.

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