“We don’t succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“Your problem isn’t that you think too much; your problem is letting everyone know what you’re thinking.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“Some will undoubtedly find this episode obscene. Not I! Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even with an admittedly nonconsensual squid? Not so much. I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word “murder” made us mumble as much as the word “masturbation.” Still,”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead.,,To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
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