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Viet Thanh Nguyen
“confess that I admired him, even though he was my enemy. It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends. Wouldn’t you agree, Commandant?”
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen
“we value the arts and humanities not simply for the material possibilities and rewards they may bring, like a Pulitzer Prize. Rather, we should value the arts and humanities for their privileging of the mystery and intuition that makes moments of revelation and innovation possible.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen
“The economic interests of the unwanted and the fearful middle class are aligned—but so many can’t see that because of how much they fear the different, the refugee, the immigrant. In its most naked form, this is racism. In a more polite form, it takes the shape of defending one’s culture, where one would rather remain economically poor but ethnically pure.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

Maggie O'Farrell
“Agnes never questions these moments of insight, the way information arrives in her head. She accepts them as a person might an unexpected gift, with a gracious smile and a feeling of benign surprise.”
Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

Viet Thanh Nguyen
“But even more challenging for me was that I wanted the book to be as much a creative work as a critical work, just as I wanted my fiction to be as critical as it was creative.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

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