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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
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People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.
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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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Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you can have ten shots of vodka and be perfectly okay. If I had ten beers, I would be liquidated.
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Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.
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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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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.
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Vodka is a wonderful drink. You can drink so much of it without being as hung over as you would if you were drinking one of the brown liquors - the whiskeys and such. It's a great drink to go with appetizers.
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My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.
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Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
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My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.
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I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.
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I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
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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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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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If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.
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