"The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction."

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Gary Shteyngart

#Fiction Quotes #Hell Quotes #Intense Quotes

“Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.”
“I made my first film McLibel independently but only by accident. I tried to get a commission from all the standard TV broadcasters but because they had been sued by McDonald's in the past none of them would commission me so I ended up making it by credit cards and rich boyfriends (I'm joking - about the boyfriends).”

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“There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.”
“I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.”
“All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our lifeâ€™s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Now we can choose the sort of thoughts that we entertain. It will be a little difficult to break a bad habit of thought, but it can be done. We can choose how we shall thinkâ€”in point of fact, we always do chooseâ€”and therefore our lives are just the result of the kind of thoughts we have”
“I'd make a bad preacher.”
“Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.”
“We wear our problems diffrently”

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