"If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die."

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Source : Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.186, Granta Books

Gary Shteyngart

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?”

Source : Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.11, University of Chicago Press
“We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.”

Source : Jeet Thayil (2012). “Narcopolis”, p.21, Faber & Faber
“I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.”
“I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.”
“Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer”

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