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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
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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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You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
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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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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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That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention they make you confuse attention for mercy.
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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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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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The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
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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 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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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 could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.
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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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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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Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.
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Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.
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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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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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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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