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The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
Journalist
Novelist
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St. Petersburg
Future
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Right
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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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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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We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.
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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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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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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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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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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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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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Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.
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You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.
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