"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."

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Source : "Will Social Media Make Us Anti-Social? A Talk With Gary Shteyngart". Interview with Mary Kuntz, www.theatlantic.com. October 26, 2011.

Gary Shteyngart

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The currency of living is how you spend the moments of your life”
“Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.”

Source : "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897
“I don't necessarily support Romney, I don't consider myself a Republican. I'm pretty much an independent.”
“There are good characters and bad characters.”
“Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.”
“I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.”
“I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.”

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