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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
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
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
Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.
— Tom Glenn
I could live without television, but not without books.
— 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
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
— Edward R. Murrow
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
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
Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
— William Westmoreland
In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.
— 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
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
give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me
— 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
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
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
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
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong,
— Muhammad Ali
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
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
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
If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.
— Ho Chi Minh
Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Let's just hope history forgets the snafus.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
no one asks poor people if they want war.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.
— 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
Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Wars never die, I said. They just go to sleep.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I wanted to wrap her in my arms and brush my eyelashes against hers in butterfly kisses.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
There is always something. That is confession's nature.
— 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
She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
For her, he swallowed the black tea of exile.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
A slogan is just an empty suit, she said. Anyone can wear it. I
— 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
The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen