Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen Download Open image ““Becoming stupider was a consequence of age for which he was unprepared. With”” — Viet Thanh Nguyen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I didn’t know what being young had to do with it. It seemed to me that older people could do foolish things just as… — Catherine M. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an engaging modesty.” — Maugham W. Somerset (William Somerset Copy Share Image
“He still had the young person’s predisposition to regard the world as a series of vaguely irritating problems created by people less cool and… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“did not blame others for his own stupidity; he learned from his mistake and became stronger for it.” — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“We are not born stupid; we inherit stupidity by continuing to do that which is stupid. - On Stupidity” — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
“It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Age doesn't cure foolishness—it only tells everyone that someone is an old fool rather than a young one,” — Connie Suttle Copy Share Image
“old enough to take on the world and young enough to be a dozen kinds of stupid,” — Tana French Copy Share Image
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He had a Minnesotan’s admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature? I cannot recall. And yet at Yan’an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art could not be separated from politics,… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do. They take advantage of things...and they don't question things. As long as those things work for them, then they support those things. But you… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“Innocence and guilt. These are cosmic issues. We’re all innocent on one level and guilty on another. Isn’t that what Original Sin is all… — Viet Thanh Nguyen 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 wielding that… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now she would do again tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that. She would read out loud, from the beginning. She would read with measured breath, to the very end. She would read as… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“then, to present myself as just another immigrant, glad to be in the land where the pursuit of happiness was guaranteed in writing, which, when one comes to think about it, is not such a great deal. Now a guarantee of happiness—that’s a great deal. But a guarantee to be allowed to pursue the jackpot of happiness? Merely an opportunity… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined the history of Catholicism, where sex of the homo, hetero, or pederastic variety supposedly never happened, hidden underneath the Vatican’s cassocks. Popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and monks carrying on with women, girls, boys, and each other? Hardly ever… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
“While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
