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Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Gary Shteyngart
Reading, Entering, Consciousness

One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fun! You shouldn't pick up a book and say, "Oh my god, I'm gonna better myself by reading this." You may better yourself by reading this, but who cares? Just have fun.

Gary Shteyngart
Fun, Book, Reading
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By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

Gary Shteyngart
Reading, Messages, Existence
Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.204, Granta Books

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

Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

Gary Shteyngart
Book, Reading, Talking
"Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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

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