Nam Le Quotes

#1. Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth.

Nam Le

#2. I write under not only the presumption that everything I write is deeply conditioned by everything I've already written, but that everything I write changes, retroactively, all those things I've already written.

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#3. I bet you feel uncomfortable right now. You know, so do I. It's hard to talk about this stuff without offending people, or feeling offended.

Jodi Picoult

#4. That was the problem with Alison Fischer: you never knew which part of her to look at. He looked at her face

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#5. I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Eva Gabor

#6. I do believe that you can never know yourself let alone the person next to you let alone the person halfway across the world. Yet at the same time I believe there is nothing like fiction to fully thrust you into someone else s consciousness.

Nam Le

#7. The thing is not to write what no one else has written but to write what only you could have written.'
I found this fragment in my old notebooks. The person who wrote that couldn't have known what would happen: how a voice hollows how words you once loved can wither on a page.

Nam Le

#8. My life has been very full.

Dolly Parton

#9. The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice.

Raymond E. Feist

#10. You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D. That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.

Michael Bay

#11. -honor won in youth grows with age.

Nam Le

#12. Across the room, Jason soared into the air and lopped the goddess's head off. Sadly, the head flew right back into place. "Unacceptable," Hygeia said calmly. "Decapitation is not a healthy lifestyle choice.

Rick Riordan

#13. The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only true measure of an agency. In the absence of great work, nothing else matters.

Phil Dusenberry

#14. Love is a double-edged sword. It can be a gift from God or a curse from the devil, all depending on how you chose to wield it.

K'wan

#15. You couldn't think of after, you only thought of now, and come to think of it, you didn't do that either -- you were left with pools of memory, each stranded from the next by time pulling forward like a tide.

Nam Le

#16. I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

Jimi Hendrix

#17. First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition.

Alisher Usmanov

#18. If you ask me why I came to Iowa, I would say that Iowa is beautiful in the way that any place is beautiful: if you treat it as the answer to a question you're asking yourself every day, just by being there.

Nam Le

#19. This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

Alfred Von Tirpitz

#20. On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.

Marlene Dietrich