Quotes by : Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...

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

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action....

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

no one asks poor people if they want war.

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.....

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium....

I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought....

Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation....