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...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
Junot Diaz
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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Science Fiction Writer
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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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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New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
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My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
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Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath you see that he's a monster.
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You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.
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The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.
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That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.
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I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
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For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.
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The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
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The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.
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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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I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.
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Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
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In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
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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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This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how many books are published, how many movies we make. But the greatest myth of all is what America is.
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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 was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.
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