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Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.
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Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.
Junot Diaz
The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.
Junot Diaz
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
Junot Diaz
My father was a trigamist he supported three families. We were never not poor.
Junot Diaz
I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.
Junot Diaz
If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
Junot Diaz
The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
Junot Diaz
Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory you won't see it often.
Junot Diaz
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.
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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
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As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.
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I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
Junot Diaz
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.
Junot Diaz
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.
Junot Diaz
When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with.
Junot Diaz
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.
Junot Diaz
I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
Junot Diaz
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.
Junot Diaz
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.
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