Nguyen

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Hãy chỉ biết ăn - Ăn toàn bèo cũng được. Cứ ăn cho đến lúc cái bụng ta to bằng cái thúng, và thế là cảm giác no nê, thỏa mãn, hạnh phúc sẽ đến. Tuyệt đối chớ nên suy nghĩ, vì suy nghĩ là mầm tai ương...”
― Nguyễn Xuân Khánh

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Nếu tin vào những thông báo chiến sự của hai bên thì trên các mặt trận chỉ còn lại những hồn ma đang đánh nhau, chứ lính của hai bên đã chết hết từ lâu rồi.”
― Vũ Thư Hiên, Đêm Giữa Ban Ngày