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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1)

by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)

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"I watched the show years ago before reading the book and I can’t unsee robert downey jr. as all the white men in captains life as I read this lol." — 13 hours, 54 min ago

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After Dark by Haruki Murakami

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“Are you asking because you really want an answer?” “Of course. Don’t people usually ask questions because they want answers?” “Logically, yes. But some people ask questions just to be polite.”

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“The conduct of life was always the same: building it up took lots of time, but destroying it could be accomplished in an instant.”
― Haruki Murakami, End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: A New Translation

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“In the end, you stop understanding everything. It’s like spinning a top that you’ve painted all different colors. The faster the top spins, the less you can distinguish one color from another, until they all blend together. You end up with chaos.”
― Haruki Murakami, End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: A New Translation

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“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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