Quotes by : Viet Thanh Nguyen

lmost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming more perfect as one ascended....

You tried to play the game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't....

Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none....

Before I only wanted to change the world. I still want that, but it was ironic how I never wanted to....

Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks....

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel....

No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die....

Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.