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The Sympathizer: -I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. -Claude said to us in parting. Even God and Noah couldn’t save everyone. Or wouldn’t, anyway. -What was it like…
Quotes: -We let the hippies steal the meaning of the words “love” and “freedom,” and we’ve only just begun to fight back. That fight begins and ends in the home. -A slogan is just an empty suit, she said. Anyone can wear it. -. “They…
more quotes: -One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both. -… what dream do you think compelled these refugees to escape, taking to the sea in leaky little boats that would have terrified Christopher…
Random thoughts: -Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. … Beethoven’s Ninth was the opus for Nazis, concentration camp commanders, and possibly…
More random thoughts: -What I learned, against my will, is that it’s impossible to live among a foreign people and not become changed by them. -Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front…
One liners: -Nothing was so true, and yet nothing was so mysterious, for the questions of who the people were and what they might want remained unanswered. -Revolutions begin this way, with men willing to fight no matter what the odds,…
More one liners: -Life’s a suicide mission. -All of us --- we’re all in jail cells without bars. We’re not men anymore. You are a soldier, so think like one. Is it better to go on this suicide mission and not come back, or is it better…
Those American Dream: Some of you may have heard that the Americans are a people who like to dream. It’s true, and although some say that America is a welfare state, in actuality it is a dream state. Here, we can dream of anything, can’t…
-Would you rather I be respectable and rich? You’d be much less interesting if you were. -Bang bang was the sound of memory’s pistol firing into our heads, for we could not forget love, we could not forget war, we could not forget lovers,…
-I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit. -But you see, gentlemen, while life is only valuable to us — I paused again, and my audience…
-while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many. ... But if happiness is not guaranteed, freedom is, and that, gentlemen, is more important. -we are a people born from the mating of a…
-I’ve seen plenty of his kind. Professional malcontents. Self-righteous masochists. They’re so unhappy with everything that they’re never going to be happy until they’re trussed for execution. And you know what his kind would say when he’s…
-There is always something. That is confession’s nature. We can never stop confessing because we are imperfect. -What is more precious than independence and freedom? A trick question? The answer was obvious. -All of us who are living are…
What if's: if history’s ship had taken a different tack, if I had become an accountant, if I had fallen in love with the right woman, if I had been a more virtuous lover, if my mother had been less of a mother, if my father had gone to…
Uncle Ho's independence and freedom: while nothing is more precious than independence and freedom, nothing is also more precious than independence and freedom! These two slogans are almost the same, but not quite. The first inspiring…
The refugees: Tomorrow we will join those tens of thousands who have taken to the sea, refugees from a revolution. According to the navigator’s plan, on the afternoon of our departure tomorrow, from houses all over Saigon, families will…
The boat people: Tomorrow we will find ourselves among strangers, reluctant mariners of whom a tentative manifest can be written. Among us will be infants and children, as well as adults and parents, but no elderly, for none dare the…
Too numerous to post here with quotes on Vietnam war in both North and South Vietnamese perspective; communist reeducation, Vietnamese immigrants in USA, foreign occupation, fall of Saigon, Vietnam war movies etc. Here is one on…