“She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Children Copy Share Image
“Becoming stupider was a consequence of age for which he was unprepared. With” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“I had succeeded in saving him, but only, as it turned out, from death.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Death Copy Share Image
“We’re all the same to them, Phuong understood with a mix of anger and shame—small, charming, and forgettable. She” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Hegel Copy Share Image
“Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Death Copy Share Image
“This, Arthur realized, was the difference between them. Arthur thought of what he had done, what he was doing, or what he… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“She sold silk at the Ben Thanh market and possessed the eyes of an experienced negotiator, smooth and unreadable as the beads… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“His habit of forgetting was too deeply ingrained, as if he passed his life perpetually walking backward through a desert, sweeping away… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Forgetting Copy Share Image
“We were not a people who charged into war at the beck and call of bugle or trumpet. No, we fought to… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Italians Copy Share Image
“Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth, beginning with how she rapped on my door every morning, at… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Every morning Copy Share Image
“No one has ever told you anything that would stop you, not from doing something you wanted.” “That’s because everything I’ve ever… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“No matter whether my eyes were open or shut, I could still see it, the crapulent major’s third eye, weeping because of… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Third eye Copy Share Image
“After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Amendment Copy Share Image
“It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten,… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Forgetting Copy Share Image
“They believe in a universe of divine justice where the human race is guilty of sin, but they also believe in a… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Divine justice Copy Share Image
“I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese. "It's okay, but the problem with… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Immigration Copy Share Image
