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“Your problem isn’t that you think too much; your problem is letting everyone know what you’re thinking.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“Isn't that what education is all about? Getting the student to sincerely say what the teacher wants to hear? Keep that in mind.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“I pitied the French for their naïveté in believing they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much more efficient, imagining the countries it wanted to exploit.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“Movies were America’s way of softening up the rest of the world, Hollywood relentlessly assaulting the mental defenses of audiences with the hit, the smash, the spectacle, the blockbuster, and, yes, even the box office bomb. It mattered not what story these audiences watched. The point was that it was the American story they watched and loved, up until the day that they themselves might be bombed by the planes they had seen in American movies.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
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This group will discuss the selections for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The winner will receive £30,000, whi ...more
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