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Bảo Ninh
“It is the whispers of friends and ordinary people now attempting ordinary peacetime pursuits which are the most horrifying. Like the case of Father Du, who presided over a very large and happy noisy family. Today, he is the only living male. And Huynh, the tram-driver, whose three sons all died on the battlefield. Like Sinh, wounded in the spine, more dead than alive until he finally died where he had lain for so long.”
Bảo Ninh, The Sorrow of War

Bảo Ninh
“They had simple, gentle, ethical outlooks on life. It was clearly those same friendly, simple peasant fighters who were the ones ready to bear the catastrophic consequences of this war, yet they never had a say in deciding the course of the war.”
Bảo Ninh, The Sorrow of War

Bảo Ninh
“The passing of beautiful youth had been so rapid that even its normal periods of anxiety and torment, of deep intrusive blind love, had been taken from him as the war clouds loomed. A moment so close, yet so far, then totally lost to him, to remain only as a memory forever.”
Bảo Ninh, The Sorrow of War

Bảo Ninh
“It was necessary to write about the war, to touch reader's hearts, to move them with words of love and sorrow, to bring to life electric moments, to let them, in the reading and the telling, fell they were there, in the past, with the author.”
Bảo Ninh, The Sorrow of War

“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
John Williams, Stoner: A Novel

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