What did Gary Shteyngart mean by: You are not what you want. You are what wants you back. - Gary Shteyngart Author · Russia Copy
+ The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (…) beautiful. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gary Shteyngart, Beautiful, Fading, Light, 0 - Gary Shteyngart Author · Russia
+ Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing. Feraz Zeid, October 23, 2023December 26, 2023, Gary Shteyngart, Breathe, Writing, 0 - Gary Shteyngart Author · Russia
+ My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gary Shteyngart, Mother, Necks, 0 - Gary Shteyngart Author · Russia
+ My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me. Feraz Zeid, September 15, 2023December 24, 2023, Gary Shteyngart, Parents, Talking, 0 - Gary Shteyngart Author · Russia
+ Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gary Shteyngart, Lucky, 0 - Gary Shteyngart Author · Russia
+ The only way to write about right now is to write about the future. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gary Shteyngart, Right Now, Writing, 0 - Gary Shteyngart Author · Russia
+ Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gary Shteyngart, Consciousness, Entering, Reading, 0 - Gary Shteyngart Author · Russia
+ freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Gary Shteyngart, Captivity, Dream, 0 - Gary Shteyngart Author · Russia
It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Sometimes you don’t even know what you want until you find out you can’t have it. - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want. - Lilith Saintcrow Author
Anytime you start a sentence with ‘I am,’ you are creating what you are and what you want to be. Explain - Wayne Dyer Author · USA
