Lake Success
Gary Shteyngart
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Hush, child. Don't be so hard on yourself. Everyone gets to start over again. This America, hon. One dream dies, you get another.”
“Now he understood why he hated Luis Goodman and other writers so much. He was a damaged person, but not damaged enough to make a life out of it.”
“Folks had draped strange flags over their iron porticoes with drawings of pineapples and the word WELCOME. The South was like that, festive but impenetrable.”
“Being a full prof at the University of Texas at El Paso meant living like a managing director at Barclays. Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country. “You’re negative arbing yourself,” he used to say.”
“You go around and you do things and you don't know why you do them," she said. "And that's the story of your gender writ large.”
“What she missed most about dating men was that small, disconcerting time frame when you thought that maybe you could change them.”
“It was the one time in my life I did something without thinking it through. People like me, people like you, all we think about is consequences. Practically from the day we're born. And look at our fucking lives.”
“After he had taught himself to be friendly, everything else became harder. He had to let go of his nerdy passions. He couldn't do both at once.”
“A man that rich couldn't be stupid. Or, Seema thought now, was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?”
“tikkun olam, or “repairing the world.”
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