"You are not what you want. You are…" — Gary Shteyngart

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back. - Gary Shteyngart

"You are not what you want. You are what wants you back."

— Gary Shteyngart

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65 Quotes by Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall…
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert…
Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me…
She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely…
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him…
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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