Andrew X. Pham quotes

“When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.”
-- Andrew X. Pham

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.40, Macmillan

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“Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way--insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders.”
-- Andrew X. Pham

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.75, Macmillan

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“Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend.”
-- Andrew X. Pham

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.98, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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“Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.”
-- Andrew X. Pham

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.135, Macmillan

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“The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.”
-- Andrew X. Pham

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“There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.”

“The music is just very specifically [designed] to get you energized. That's the great thing about those situations: I have no choice. It completely takes over your body and pushes you, like it was designed to do. I'm constantly surrounded by music, energy, and experiences that put me in that state of cheer.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Juno Temple Talks Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 03, 2013.

“WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY’VE DONE HAS ALMOST ALWAYS BEEN DEFINED BY FEARLESSNESS. STOP LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER - THERE’S NOBODY WHO MATTERS BACK THERE.”

“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

“You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.”

Source : Adam Braun (2014). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

“The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.”

“To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.”

“And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.”

“It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.”