Gary Shteyngart Quotes
Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

-Gary Shteyngart
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Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- . . . Read more

-Gary Shteyngart
If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

-Gary Shteyngart
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There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.

-Gary Shteyngart
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My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to . . . Read more

-Gary Shteyngart
We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a se . . . Read more

-Gary Shteyngart
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.

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By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

-Gary Shteyngart
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