Viet Thanh Nguyen Quotes

Our Proper Mode In Situations Where Demand Was High And Supply Low Was To Elbow, Jostle, Crowd, And Hustle, And, If All That Failed, To Bribe, Flatter, Exaggerate, And Lie. I Was Uncertain Whether These Traits Were Genetic, Deeply Cultural, Or Simply A Rapid Evolutionary Development. We Had Been Forced To Adapt To Ten Years Of Living In A Bubble Economy Pumped Up Purely By American Imports; Three Decades Of On-again, Off-again War, Including The Sawing In Half Of The Country In '54 By Foreign Magicians And The Brief Japanese Interregnum Of World War II; And The Previous Century Of Avuncular French Molestation.

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