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Gary Shteyngart Quotes

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By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) Let’s see if I can write about something other than my heart  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) You are not what you want. You are what wants you back  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) I’m the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn’t this how people used to fall in love?  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you’ll never figure out what’s important  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) That’s what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn’t want to sully myself with their weakness anymore  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I’m not in love with him  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you’re going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell’s the point? Just do fiction  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won’t matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes) It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you  (Gary Shteyngart Quotes)
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