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The Sympathizer: -I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. -Claude said to us in parting. Even God and Noah couldn’t save everyone. Or wouldn’t, anyway. -What was it like to live in a time when one’s fate was not war, when one was not led by the craven and the corrupt, when one’s country was not a basket case kept alive only through the intravenous drip of American aid? -I can only testify that he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from most. -Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell. -we were atheists who had chosen communism over God. -I had an abiding respect for the professionalism of career prostitutes, who wore their dishonesty more openly than lawyers, both of whom bill by the hour.