"If you read only one memoir by a……" — Gary Shteyngart
"If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav."
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65 Quotes by Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart has 65 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting…
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[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven…
— James Connolly
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After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians…
— Andrew Jackson
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Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
— Susan Sontag
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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard,…
— Chelsea Clinton
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Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even…
— John Bates Clark
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
— Geoff Mulgan
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I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against…
— J D Salinger
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Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
— Melissa de la Cruz
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Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose…
— David Foster Wallace
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