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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: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's happened is that it has now reached a level of national discourse where it's on the table. But they've never minded that we were treated like this off-stage.
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We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.
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If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
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In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that we do beautifully. We are, for all of our mistakes and all of our crimes, a remarkable place.
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Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
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Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.
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I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
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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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Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.
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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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And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
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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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The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.
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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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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.
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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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When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with.
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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
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...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
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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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