"My parents were kind enough to spend hours…" — Gary Shteyngart
"My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me."
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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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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within…
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
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Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are.…
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour…
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I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a…
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I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.
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I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.
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I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30…
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Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing…
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in…
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of…
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