“The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I think of my mother and father. Of their constant anxiety. But their anxiety means they still want to live.” — Gary Shteyngart Anxiety Copy Share Image
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens. — Gary Shteyngart Great memories Copy Share Image
“I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.” — Gary Shteyngart Childhood Copy Share Image
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is who I really am. Not a loner, exactly. But someone who can be alone.” — Gary Shteyngart Alone Copy Share Image
Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities -… — Gary Shteyngart Beer Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true.… — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I told her my father was a retired janitor who liked to go fishing. She told me her father was a podiatrist… — Gary Shteyngart Marriage Copy Share Image
“Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience… — Gary Shteyngart Childhood Copy Share Image
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the… — Gary Shteyngart Girl Copy Share Image
I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then… — Gary Shteyngart Books Copy Share Image
“Cohen was on his knees taking a picture of a passing cloud, an unremarkable cirrus shaped as if it were sketched expressly… — Gary Shteyngart Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS VEHICLE ("THE OBJECT") UNTIL YOU ARE .5 MILES FROM THE SECURITY PERIMETER OF… — Gary Shteyngart Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end… — Gary Shteyngart After death Copy Share Image
After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up… — Gary Shteyngart Book Copy Share Image
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Joshie had always told Post-Human Services staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were, because every moment our brains and… — Gary Shteyngart Diary Copy Share Image
“But I knew it wasn't just the cute girl on the screen that had made Eunice cry. It was her father laughing,… — Gary Shteyngart Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“I am scared of the photo studio. I am scared of the telephone. Scared of anything outside our apartment. Scared of the… — Gary Shteyngart Electric current Copy Share Image
Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“It's special because it's not special, and hence it makes Cohen feel special for choosing it.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me. — Gary Shteyngart Ability Copy Share Image
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Just don’t write like a self -hating Jew,” my father is whispering into my ear.” — Gary Shteyngart Father Copy Share Image
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart. — Gary Shteyngart Heart Copy Share Image
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] — Gary Shteyngart Art Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students” — Gary Shteyngart Law students Copy Share Image
Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.” — Gary Shteyngart Creative spirit Copy Share Image
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. — Gary Shteyngart Consciousness Copy Share Image
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