"In America, the distance between wanting something and……" — Gary Shteyngart
"In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great."
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65 Quotes by Gary Shteyngart
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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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If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert…
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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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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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More America Quotes
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
— Desi Arnaz
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
— Arthur Ashe
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
— Bashar al-Assad
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
— Chinua Achebe
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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