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Category: Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word. At least that’s one way I’ve figured out hot to describe love.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.

hate, ignored, love, significance

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Priests always had much attention lavished on them by their starstruck fans,those devout housewives and wealthy congregants who treated them as if they were guardians of the velvet rope blocking entrance into that ever so exclusive nightclub, Heaven.

hypocrisy, priests, religion

Viet Thanh Nguyen

I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself to the brink of disaster without knowing how to save us. But was not this how all plans developed, unknown to their maker until he wove for himself a parachute, or else melted into air?

disaster, plans, risk

Viet Thanh Nguyen

If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

inspirational, nostalgia, reflection

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Remember, you’re not half of anything, you’re twice of everything.

examined-life, self-image, self-worth

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death. For if we are represented by others, might they not, one day, hose our deaths off memory’s laminated floor?

memory, representation

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

contemplation, sadness

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 change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outside.

change, games, inside, outside