A Terrible Country Quotes

“To cook and clean yourself is intolerable. But to have someone else do it is exhausting.”
― Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country

“You had to be fundamentally stupid, I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to focus on one narrow, particular thing.”
― Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country

“presence”
― Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country

“Our grandmother lived in the center of Moscow. The rents there were almost as high as Manhattan's. On my PMOOC salary I would be able to rent approximately an armchair.”
― Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country