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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
Journalist
Novelist
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St. Petersburg
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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
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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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We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.
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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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My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.
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That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention they make you confuse attention for mercy.
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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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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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In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
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I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.
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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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The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
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Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.
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