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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
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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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Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
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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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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 don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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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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She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.
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Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
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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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Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.
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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'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?
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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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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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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.
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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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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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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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My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.
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