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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
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St. Petersburg
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Heart
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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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Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.
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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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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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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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I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
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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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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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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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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're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.
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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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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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I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.
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