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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
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freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.
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Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.
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Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.
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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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You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
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The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.
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All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!
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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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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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If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.
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I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.
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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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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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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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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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My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.
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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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I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
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You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.
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You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't drink vodka, either in Russia or here. I don't think there's ever a wrong time to start drinking it. My ancestors drank it, and if I ever have any children, they'll be drinking it.
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