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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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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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Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.
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I always think about myself as a writer that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.
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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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Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.
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Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
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You can't be a human without seeing.
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I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
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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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Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.
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The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.
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I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
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My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.
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Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
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Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.
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There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.
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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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Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.
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Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
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I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
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