Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngartis an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR. Much of his work is satirical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 July 1972
CountryUnited States of America
fall mean thinking
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 clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.
eye blue blue-eyes
You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.
moon orange sullen
The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.
queens memories russia
I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.
fall reading rome
Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.
summer running home
Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.
dream captivity anathema
freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.
alcohol causes problem
Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.
sweet hands giving
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.
life thinking wonder
If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.
reading entering consciousness
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
machines giants opinion
We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.