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• 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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• If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

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• I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

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• 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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• 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.

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• Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.

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• All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.

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• Today I’ve made a major decision. I’m never going to die.

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• Freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

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• Let’s see if I can write about something other than my heart.

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

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• The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief beautiful.

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• Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

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Gary Shteyngart (13)

Birth:	5th July, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Professor

About

Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad, USSR. He is an American novelist. He earned a BA degree in politics, Oberlin College, Ohio. He earned an MFA degree in Creative Writing, Hunter College, City University of New York. He has taught writing at Hunter College, and currently teaches writing at Columbia University. He has written several novels include: The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story. The Russian Debutante's Handbook won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Super Sad True Love Story won the 2011 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature. His memoir Little Failure was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award.

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