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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.
Junot Diaz
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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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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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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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My art feels like it's real disobedient. I can fill notebooks with observations and maybe they find their way into the work unconsciously, which is great. I've never been able to directly plug, like to take a little snip that I've picked up on the street and transfer it into a story. I don't know what's wrong, but it never works that way.
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God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
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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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I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.
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Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
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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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My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.
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I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.
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In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.
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Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.
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...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
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I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition.
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I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
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I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
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As a Dominican man, you're socialized to be a playboy. You spend a lot of time being taught that women are important, but without the really positive framework of why. You figure out quickly it's because of culo (ass). But there is a sense that it's not that simple.
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In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.
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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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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
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