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Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

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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
Nowhere
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Whatever
Love

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Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.
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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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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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What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.
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I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.
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A person doesn't mourn forever.
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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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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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You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
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People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.
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I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.
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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 anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
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Privilege does not operate without silence.
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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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This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how many books are published, how many movies we make. But the greatest myth of all is what America is.
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I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
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You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.
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New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
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