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Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gary Shteyngart
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![Gary Shteyngart quotes: I think of my mother and father. Of their constant anxiety. But their anxiety means they still want to live. Gary Shteyngart quotes: I think of my mother and father. Of their constant anxiety. But their anxiety means they still want to live.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-695991.jpg)
![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: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1542789.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: But what kind of profession is this, writer?" my mother would ask. "You want to be this?" I want to be this. Gary Shteyngart quotes: But what kind of profession is this, writer?" my mother would ask. "You want to be this?" I want to be this.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-402986.jpg)
![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: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-800198.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: Stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries - everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life. Gary Shteyngart quotes: Stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries - everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-186449.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like him, all alone. Gary Shteyngart quotes: I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like him, all alone.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1076914.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: Cereal is food, sort of. It tastes grainy, easy and light, with a hint of false fruitiness. It tastes the way America feels. Gary Shteyngart quotes: Cereal is food, sort of. It tastes grainy, easy and light, with a hint of false fruitiness. It tastes the way America feels.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1349144.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore. Gary Shteyngart quotes: The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1487385.jpg)
![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: We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1034057.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about. Gary Shteyngart quotes: I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1886830.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece. Gary Shteyngart quotes: After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-421530.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes. Gary Shteyngart quotes: When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1287264.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength. Gary Shteyngart quotes: This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-720143.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. Gary Shteyngart quotes: I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1781214.jpg)
![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: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-527231.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn. Gary Shteyngart quotes: As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1851922.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1146642.jpg)
![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 just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-332987.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer. Gary Shteyngart quotes: Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-233165.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: Remember this ... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important. Gary Shteyngart quotes: Remember this ... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-229299.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great. Gary Shteyngart quotes: In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1516809.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my Gary Shteyngart quotes: Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1786050.jpg)
![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: That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-190273.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system. Gary Shteyngart quotes: That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1860398.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly. Gary Shteyngart quotes: People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-183911.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: Heavy use of a special hypoallergenic organic air freshener is encouraged at Post-Human Services, because the scent of immortality is complex. Gary Shteyngart quotes: Heavy use of a special hypoallergenic organic air freshener is encouraged at Post-Human Services, because the scent of immortality is complex.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-2040291.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition. Gary Shteyngart quotes: This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-2074413.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments. Gary Shteyngart quotes: The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-2133890.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav. Gary Shteyngart quotes: If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-2189394.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [ ... ] Gary Shteyngart quotes: A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [ ... ]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-681645.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards! Gary Shteyngart quotes: America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-813236.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me. Gary Shteyngart quotes: My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-818017.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared. Gary Shteyngart quotes: The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-583346.jpg)
![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: It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1120552.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: He didn't love her. They were together for the obvious and timeless reason: It was slightly less painful than being alone. Gary Shteyngart quotes: He didn't love her. They were together for the obvious and timeless reason: It was slightly less painful than being alone.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1182765.jpg)
![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: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-1210953.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: If we can't take care of each other now, when the world is going to shit, how are we ever going to make it? Gary Shteyngart quotes: If we can't take care of each other now, when the world is going to shit, how are we ever going to make it?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-456207.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: With a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students Gary Shteyngart quotes: With a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-668219.jpg)
![Gary Shteyngart quotes: In her bones, this may still be her country. But she will not touch it with her hands the way I do, trying to lyricize the filth and the decay. Gary Shteyngart quotes: In her bones, this may still be her country. But she will not touch it with her hands the way I do, trying to lyricize the filth and the decay.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/gary-shteyngart-quotes-439476.jpg)
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gary Shteyngart
Discover top inspirational quotes from Gary Shteyngart on Wise Famous Quotes.