We may not be a great power anymore, we may be into you for sixty-five trillion yuan-pegged, but we're not afraid to use our troops if our spades act up, so watch out, or we'll go fucking nuclear on your yellow asses if you try to cash in your chips. Gary Shteyngart
Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think hopefully of the future.
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Jacqueline Winspear
They are nothing but a broken bones crawling in the shadow of the past.
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Bilal
The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.
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Sarah Addison Allen
She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
…He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.
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Thomm Quackenbush
More Quotes By Gary Shteyngart
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>. Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer...
In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the...
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.
