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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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The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.
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I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
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That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.
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The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.
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Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
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I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
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Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath you see that he's a monster.
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The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.
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John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.
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Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.
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I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.
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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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Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
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You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
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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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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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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
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- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.
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Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
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She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
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