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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
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St. Petersburg
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You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
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Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.
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She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.
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Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
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freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.
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Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.
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Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.
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The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
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It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.
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One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy, whether you continue the process by walking down the street thinking about things or whether you continue the process, as I do, by writing about them.
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We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
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Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.
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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.
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You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.
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Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
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