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...sometimes a start is all we ever 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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People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
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I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
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Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'
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[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.
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The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
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We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.
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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
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The half-life of love is forever.
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I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, Eh, no one else likes to read but me I must be crazy!
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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory you won't see it often.
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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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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 feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
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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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Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.
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Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.
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I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.
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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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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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