"The love I felt for her on that……" — Gary Shteyngart
"The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete."
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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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