Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more. — Gary Shteyngart Alcohol Copy Share Image
By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent. — Gary Shteyngart Consent Copy Share Image
“All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.” — Gary Shteyngart Arousal Copy Share Image
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there. — Gary Shteyngart Lucky Copy Share Image
We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense. — Gary Shteyngart Orient Copy Share Image
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future. — Gary Shteyngart Future Copy Share Image
Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer. — Gary Shteyngart Bashing Copy Share Image
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. — Gary Shteyngart Dead Copy Share Image
“I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like… — Gary Shteyngart Photocopy Copy Share Image
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy. — Gary Shteyngart Attention Copy Share Image
I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie… — Gary Shteyngart Acting Copy Share Image
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was… — Gary Shteyngart Disaster Copy Share Image
America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards! — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen… — Gary Shteyngart 19th century Copy Share Image
Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many… — Gary Shteyngart Age Copy Share Image
“The nesting doll of memory collapses into its component pieces, each leading someplace smaller and smaller [...]” — Gary Shteyngart Memory 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
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
“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 First time 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
“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces… — Gary Shteyngart Awkward Copy Share Image
“I know this kind of girl,” Grace was saying. “It’s the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up… — Gary Shteyngart Grace Copy Share Image
“We may not be a great power anymore, we may be into you for sixty-five trillion yuan-pegged, but we're not afraid to… — Gary Shteyngart China Copy Share Image
“There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the… — Gary Shteyngart Gardening Copy Share Image
“Alyosha-Bob and I have an interesting hobby that we indulge whenever possible. We think of ourselves as The Gentlemen Who Like To… — Gary Shteyngart Ice cube Copy Share Image
... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one… — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
“Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.” — Gary Shteyngart Decision Copy Share Image
The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. — Gary Shteyngart Beautiful Copy Share Image
“How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.” — Gary Shteyngart Help Copy Share Image
“It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to… — Gary Shteyngart Country Copy Share Image
“The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.” — Gary Shteyngart Family Copy Share Image
I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love? — Gary Shteyngart Bars Copy Share Image
“Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.” — Gary Shteyngart Books Copy Share Image
“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?” — Gary Shteyngart Children Copy Share Image
Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems. — Gary Shteyngart Italy Copy Share Image
“If we can't take care of each other now, when the world is going to shit, how are we ever going to… — Gary Shteyngart World Copy Share Image
“I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.” — Gary Shteyngart Comedy Copy Share Image
“The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.” — Gary Shteyngart Gradually 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
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