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““All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.””

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Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.

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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…

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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 support my…

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Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you…

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“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…

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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.…

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“This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.”

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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

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“The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.”

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“The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.”

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