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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
Intimacy
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Infidelity
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I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.
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You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.
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I prefer the 1950s where people were like, I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am. Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.
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It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)
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We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.
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What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).
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My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.
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What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.
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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
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She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
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As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.
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'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
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but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
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She's applying her lipstick I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
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I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
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Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
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I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
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Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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