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Mary Karr

"Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date"

-- Mary Karr

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“the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.”
“The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
“She shook her head slowly. â€œI donâ€™t believe you. You canâ€™t be a cop.â€ â€œNot a cop.â€ â€œFederal agent?â€ â€œFBI.â€ â€œEven more unlikely.â€ â€œJ. Edgar rolls over in his grave every day, but thatâ€™s the way it is.”
“There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.”
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”

Source : Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press
“We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.”
“More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.”
“Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative ones that fill the airwaves with their lies and are in power and want to oppress the world. There. Now give me money so that I can soothsay again and assuage your guilt.”

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