Gary Shteyngart Quotes
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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People are essentially red meat. They are.
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[Denzel Washington] was rustling with something and when he came back it was with a word about loving myself and the body that I'm in because I was still going on and on about the weight thing. I just liked that, because what people don't understand is that so much of what blocks us as actors is so personal.
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And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'
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The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.
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Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
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I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
