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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?

Gary Shteyngart

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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
St. Petersburg
Love
People
Fortieth
Ugliest
Bars
Fall
Used
Men

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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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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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We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
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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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