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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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Junot Diaz
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.
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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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The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.
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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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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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We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.
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For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.
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The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
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The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.
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You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.
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We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.
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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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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory you won't see it often.
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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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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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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 wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.
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Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.
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She's applying her lipstick I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
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