"Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just……" — Gary Shteyngart
"Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems."
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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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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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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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More Italy Quotes
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one of 410 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
— Dario Argento
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As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each…
— Mario Batali
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Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty,…
— Mario Batali
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have…
— Manolo Blahnik
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food…
— Alton Brown
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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
— Josef Albers
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We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness…
— Robert Byrd
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It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in…
— Nicolas Cage
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
— Camille Claudel
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