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Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

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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
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Nobody
Forever
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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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Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'
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For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.
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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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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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I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
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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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Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.
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I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.
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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
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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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Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.
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There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.
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When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.
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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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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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It took me sixteen years to write.
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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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