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Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.
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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
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Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
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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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You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell 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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I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.
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As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.
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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
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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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