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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
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I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
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Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.
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Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.
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If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves
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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
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...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
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The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
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Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.
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God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
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My father was a trigamist he supported three families. We were never not poor.
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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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Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.
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I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, Eh, no one else likes to read but me I must be crazy!
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We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.
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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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You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?
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We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.
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[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.
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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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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
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