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
I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking… — Gary Shteyngart Drinking Copy Share Image
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will… — Gary Shteyngart Capitalism Copy Share Image
You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when… — Gary Shteyngart Ancestor Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA… — Gary Shteyngart Academy Copy Share Image
“And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best… — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I felt sorry for Jesus. Sorry that the miracles ascribed to him hadn’t actually made… — Gary Shteyngart 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
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“In her bones, this may still be her country. But she will not touch it with her hands the way I do,… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I prepared for my meal in the usual fashion: fork in my left hand; my dominant right clenched into a fist on… — Gary Shteyngart Food Copy Share Image
“After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece… — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country… — Gary Shteyngart Age Copy Share Image
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared. — Gary Shteyngart Lakes Copy Share Image
“These kinds of lost, overeducated mama’s boys were perpetually stumbling down a corridor with two distant exits, one marked HESITANT INTELLECTUAL and… — Gary Shteyngart Child Copy Share Image
“The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and… — Gary Shteyngart Adventure Copy Share Image
People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly. — Gary Shteyngart Cursing Copy Share Image
We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts… — Gary Shteyngart Computers Copy Share Image
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was… — Gary Shteyngart Art Copy Share Image
“It's just a passing thing,' Vishnu had told me about his girlfriend's beliefs. 'It's like their way of assimilating into the West.… — Gary Shteyngart Faith Copy Share Image
“Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of… — Gary Shteyngart Exhaustion Copy Share Image
“Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to… — Gary Shteyngart Book Copy Share Image
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but… — Gary Shteyngart Children Copy Share Image
She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young… — Gary Shteyngart Body Copy Share Image
“The three things I had going for me: an inbred Russian willingness to get drunk and chummy, an inbred Jewish willingness to… — Gary Shteyngart Israel Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to… — Gary Shteyngart Book Copy Share Image
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