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Gary Shteyngart has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?
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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…
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Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
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I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like…
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She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for…
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In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…
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A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
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My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
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We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
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In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
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You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
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Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just…
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Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)…
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I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world…
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I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.
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Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
— Andrei Codrescu
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She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is…
— David Lubar
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Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.
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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…
— Gary Shteyngart
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