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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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If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!
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...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own…
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We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I…
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If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.
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When we found out Blackburn's owners wanted us to do a chicken advert for Venky's, we didn't really know what to think.…
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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
— Clare Boothe Luce
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If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
— Jesse Helms
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If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.
— Monica Denise Brown
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