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“Its refugee members were hobbled by their structural function in the American Dream, which was to be so unhappy as to make other Americans grateful for their happiness.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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“It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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“An artist’s job was not to give aesthetic pleasure—designers could do that; it was to step back from the world and attempt to make sense or comment on it through the presentation of ideas that had no functional purpose other than themselves.”
― Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

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“Your problem isn’t that you think too much; your problem is letting everyone know what you’re thinking.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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“That, he thought, was the essential purpose of art—to capture the universal in the everyday, which was particular to their here and now: the present.”
― Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

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