Gary Shteyngart Quotes

• Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Reading, Entering, Consciousness

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• If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Life, Thinking, Wonder

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.186, Granta Books

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• Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Evil, Stupidity, Benefits

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• Vodka is a wonderful drink. You can drink so much of it without being as hung over as you would if you were drinking one of the brown liquors - the whiskeys and such. It's a great drink to go with appetizers.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Drinking, Whiskey, Wonderful

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Want You Back, Want, What You Want

  Gary Shteyngart (2014). “Little Failure: A Memoir”, p.275, Random House

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• In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

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  America, Russia, Unions

  "Russian revolution" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2007.

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• The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Beautiful, Light, Fading

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.174, Granta Books

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• Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.

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  Alcohol, Causes, Problem

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Important, Nostalgia, Remember

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.21, Granta Books

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• After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up at your desk - although frankly, I don't have a desk, I write in bed - you're supposed to show up at your bed and produce work. I think it's a little bit like work. I like to have fun with it, do things like make silly book trailers. I don't want to take this too seriously.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fun, Silly, Book

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Girl, Rocks, Years

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• All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!

  Gary Shteyngart

  Book, Men, Needs

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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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.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Hands, Brain, Fiction

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• Me cogió de la mano y tiró de mí tras ella, sus hombros desprendían un dulce brebaje de menta que a veces producen los cuerpos de las mujeres jóvenes para hacerme la vida más difícil.

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  Sweet, Hands, Giving

  Gary Shteyngart (2006). “Absurdistan: A Novel”, p.212, Random House

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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.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Giants, Machines, Opinion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Real, Russia, Tomatoes

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!

  Gary Shteyngart

  Lying, Heart, Difficult Work

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• I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Hurt, Kids, Hands

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Real, Libro, Pensamiento

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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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  Beer, Russia, Cities

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Tyrants, Attention, Mercy

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.163, Granta Books

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• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Russia, Stills, Ifs

  "Gary Shteyngart: 'Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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• One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fun! You shouldn't pick up a book and say, "Oh my god, I'm gonna better myself by reading this." You may better yourself by reading this, but who cares? Just have fun.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Diversión, Libro, Lectura

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Nice, Would Be, Fiction

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Libro, Personas, Necesidades

  "Will Social Media Make Us Anti-Social? A Talk With Gary Shteyngart". Interview with Mary Kuntz, www.theatlantic.com. October 26, 2011.

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