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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

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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
Junot Diaz
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Obsessed
Reading
Kids
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I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
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I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.
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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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She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
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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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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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If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves
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This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.
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The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
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Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.
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In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
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A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone will hear them. But it's good a lot of young people persevere. Because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value.
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You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.
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I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
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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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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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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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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
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Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'
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