Gary Shteyngart Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fall, Reading, Rome

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.341, Random House

• In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Love, Lying, Reading

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.339, Random House

• Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Dark, Russia

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

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