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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.

Gary Shteyngart

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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
St. Petersburg
Forget
Fountain
Live
Mediocrity
Matter
Immortality
Like
Mines
Mine
Deserve
Youth
Mediocrities
Thousand
Pals

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