Quotes by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
no one asks poor people if they want war. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom... — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not on — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Before I only wanted to change the world. I still want that, but it was ironic how I never wanted to change myself. Yet — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
You tried to play the game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. N — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in th — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat? — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the dar — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfo — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer