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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 work.

~Gary Shteyngart

Topics: Am Cannot Doubt Either Fun Go Have Fun Here Humor Important Many Readers Without Work Would I Am

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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

Topics: Always Brink Clearly Death Good Growing Growing Up Lets Mortality Really See Should Them Think Up Very Writers

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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. 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

Topics: Also Another Been Contribute Destroyed Device Empathy Enter Every Every Second Giant Gone How Idea Important Learn Machine Mind Now Opinions Our Out Part Person Second Silence Take Thinks Thoughts Where Whole

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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

~Gary Shteyngart

Topics: American Be Nice Fiction Good Nice Read Somebody Would

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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

~Gary Shteyngart

Topics: Because Begins Born Couple Decline Feisty First Inevitable Lives Love Natural Our Our Lives Progression Really Then Things Years I Love

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I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.

~Gary Shteyngart

Topics: Acting Acting Class Allen Class Done Films First Great Indie Look Love Many Movies Other Some Took Wife Woody You Youtube I Love

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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

~Gary Shteyngart

Topics: Chekhov Connection Delicious Feelings God His Humanity Like Love Low Low Self-Esteem Man Paul Screen Self-Esteem Those Together Unbelievable Walking Way I Love

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Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

~Gary Shteyngart

Topics: Always Big Change Communications Devices Effect Like Revolution Seemed Telegraph Telephone Time Used Very Were

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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

~Gary Shteyngart

Topics: Away Book Communicate Connect Constant Introspection Need People Read Requires Time Want You

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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

~Gary Shteyngart

Topics: Advertising Book Bookstore Cover Diminish Electronic Going Lot Model Move Rapidly Sees Somebody Subway Things Those Ways Whether

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 5th, 1972

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