Bars Quote by Gary Shteyngart

“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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“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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