"We are now part of this giant machine……" — Gary Shteyngart
"We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions."
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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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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own…
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I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than…
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Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
— Bertolt Brecht
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
— Anne Campbell
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production…
— Elias Canetti
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There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.
— Hillary Clinton
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Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next…
— Barack Obama
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A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that…
— Joshua L. Liebman
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Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
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