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I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.
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I always think about myself as a writer that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.
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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.
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And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
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To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
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I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.
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The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.
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...sometimes a start is all we ever get.
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Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.
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I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
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Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
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I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.
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The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
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[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.
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I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
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Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
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I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.
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God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
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