Junot Diaz Quotes
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Junot Diaz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
She picks off my glasses and kisses the parts of my face that almost never get touched, the skin under the glass and frame
I act most like myself ... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
They could have moderated things a little, don't you think, but they were, like, Fuck that, what are friendships for if not for instigating?
Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.
I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That
Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.
She wanted to talk about unimportant matters, to speak to someone who wasn't her child or her spouse.
I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself.
- But your yourself sucks!
- It is, lamentably, all I have.
- But your yourself sucks!
- It is, lamentably, all I have.
It was the curse that made me do it, you know. I don't believe in that sh*t, Oscar. That's our parents' sh*t. It's ours, too, he said.
He doesn't speak for a moment, as if the silence is the elastic that will bring his next words forward.
I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.
Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.
I was seventeen and a half, smoking so much bud that if I remembered an hour from any one of those days it would have been a lot.
She is an exceptionally beautiful girl. You think of that old saying Show me a beautiful girl and I'll show you someone who is tired of fucking her.
Besides it only happens when you're not looking for it.
That's what everybody claims. Easier to say that than This shit sucks.
That's what everybody claims. Easier to say that than This shit sucks.
And when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.
Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside of bodies, the new girl says.
Elsewhere called the Strom Thurmond Maneuver.) Pujols of course blamed Beli for everything. Sat in the office of the rector and
When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.
Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber or a Lensman her lens. Couldn't have passed for Normal if he'd wanted to.
That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.
Every time someone gives you a formula for what you should be and what you should do, you should know they're giving you a pair of handcuffs.
Sometimes you can be good at something that you still find really hard. Sometimes, to be good at something, you just need to keep showing the fuck up.
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.