"All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded……" — Monique Truong
"All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own."
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Monique Truong
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6 Quotes by Monique Truong
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Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving…
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Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they…
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The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my…
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I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen,…
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Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in…
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