"You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't drink vodka, either in Russia or here. I don't think there's ever a wrong time to start drinking it. My ancestors drank it, and if I ever have any children, they'll be drinking it."

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Source : "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

Gary Shteyngart

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“If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.137, Kent State University Press
“Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)”
“Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.”

Source : Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.144, Ballantine Books
“The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.”
“Before you can beat me (this is the easy part), you have to allow yourself to win.”
“A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.”
“The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.”
“Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet”

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