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When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished Drown was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.
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You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
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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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I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.
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It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.
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Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
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Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
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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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but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
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New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
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The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.
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