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Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

Gary Shteyngart

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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
St. Petersburg
Heart
Something
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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.
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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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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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freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.
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The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.
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You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
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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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Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.
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