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“Politics is always personal, my dear, she said. That’s what makes it deadly.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed

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“The past is a black hole, cut into the present day like a wound, and if you come too close, you can get sucked in. You have to keep moving.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

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“Like the homeless, refugees are living embodiments of a disturbing possibility: that human privileges are quite fragile, that one’s home, family, and nation are one catastrophe away from being destroyed.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

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“What reeducation had taught me was that dedicated communists were like dedicated capitalists, incapable of nuance.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed

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“I came to understand that in the United States, land of the fabled American dream, it is un-American to be a refugee. The refugee embodies fear, failure, and flight. Americans of all kinds believe that it is impossible for an American to become a refugee, although it is possible for refugees to become Americans and in that way be elevated one step closer to heaven.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

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