The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nothing . . . is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.”
“If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?”
“I could live without television, but not without books.”
“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.”
“While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.”
“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.”
“Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity.”
“Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.”
“It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends”
“I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.”
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