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Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Gary Shteyngart

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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
St. Petersburg
Reading
Another
Human
Humans
Entering
Consciousness

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freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.
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