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I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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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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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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For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.
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I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.
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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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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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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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Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.
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My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.
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I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
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Privilege does not operate without silence.
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The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.
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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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The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.
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