Nguyen

“thế là cuối cùng, phải chăng chiến tranh chính là cái cuộc chuyền từ tay người này sang tay người kia các món đồ, mỗi lúc lại méo mó thêm một chút?”
― Italo Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount

“A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.”
― Mo Yan, Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh and Other Stories

“Khoan Độ chắp tay ngẩng mặt lên trời, lầm bầm trong miệng. Hai người cưa một cái đầu. Kẻ bị bó giò rú lên như một con chó dại sủa trăng. Chiếc thuyền bêu đầu trôi sông dập dềnh trên nước. Ông sư ngửa mặt lên trời ăn mày lòng từ bi của thế gian.”
― Nguyễn Xuân Khánh, Đội gạo lên chùa

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler