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I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

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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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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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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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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.
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The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
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Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
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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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As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.
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I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.
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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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She's applying her lipstick I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
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New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call 'a center' or 'the center of the universe,' has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.
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