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> [“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/also-i-ve-spent-an-entire-week-without-reading-any-books-or-talking/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

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## More by Gary Shteyngart

> [“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/these-are-all-good-things-i-said-but-no-one-knows-where-your-country/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/italy-has-sun-and-tomatoes-and-russia-just-has-real-problems/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/don-t-be-pretentious-is-my-first-advice-to-young-writers-this-is-the/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/i-read-real-books-on-paper-you-know-those-printed-books-i-feel-like/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/russia-tried-to-introduce-beer-as-kind-of-the-new-vodka-and-it-s/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [“There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/there-s-something-outrageously-simple-about-extending-yourself-toward/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/silence-has-been-destroyed-but-also-the-idea-that-it-s-important-to/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [“This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/this-red-fading-into-brown-defines-queens-for-me-it-is-quiet-and/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/if-i-still-lived-in-russia-i-d-be-dead-or-a-really-effective-oligarch/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [“The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/the-fact-that-my-sexual-awakening-peripherally-involves-steve/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [“The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/the-simple-trill-of-her-laugh-has-not-declined-over-the-years-if/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/we-know-summer-is-the-height-of-of-being-alive-we-don-t-believe-in/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [“The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/the-novel-was-set-in-an-unspecified-near-future-because-setting-a/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/one-should-learn-from-a-book-books-have-a-lot-to-teach-us-they-have-a/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

> [I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-shteyngart/i-always-think-that-good-writers-should-be-growing-up-on-the-brink-of/)

[Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-shteyngart/)

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