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This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

Junot Diaz

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Junot Diaz
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
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I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.
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Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.
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She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
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The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.
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Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
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Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
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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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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 never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
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I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.
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My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
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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 need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.
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It took me sixteen years to write.
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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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Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.
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I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
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I prefer the 1950s where people were like, I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am. Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.
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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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