"The Quiet American" Quotes
An American aid worker and a British journalist vie for the affection of a Vietnamese woman amidst the backdrop of political turmoil in 1950s Saigon.
fiction | 162 pages | Published in 2021
Quotes
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
I had come out here to make war on the Communists.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
It's easy to bash the Americans. They're so friendly.
Morality is only a matter of time and geography.
Sooner or later... one has to take sides.
In wars, things always change rapidly, and seldom for the better.
There are many ways to win a war, even more to lose it.
The only sin is to be boring.
Nothing is more desirable than the impossible.
