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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. — Junot Diaz

In love! She wafted through her day like a woman with a concussion. — Junot Diaz

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. — Junot Diaz

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection. — Junot Diaz

The half-life of love is forever. — Junot Diaz

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods. — Junot Diaz

She picks off my glasses and kisses the parts of my face that almost never get touched, the skin under the glass and frame — Junot Diaz

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas. — Junot Diaz

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art. — Junot Diaz

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever. — Junot Diaz

Decent people live around here and that's how we're going to live. You're Americans now. He had his Chivas Regal bottle on his knee. — Junot Diaz

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. — Junot Diaz

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards. — Junot Diaz

It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That — Junot Diaz

Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks. — Laure Junot, Duchess Of Abrantes

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category. — Junot Diaz

Lola swore she would never return to that terrible country. On one of our last nights as novios she said, Ten million Trujillos is all we are. — Junot Diaz

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. — Junot Diaz

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. — Junot Diaz

I should say something but I don't know where a person can start. — Junot Diaz

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. — Junot Diaz

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books. — Junot Diaz

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

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads. — Junot Diaz

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. — Junot Diaz

Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten. — Junot Diaz

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world. — Junot Diaz

These were the early Clinton years but the economy was still sucking an eighties cock ... — Junot Diaz

I was staring at you and you were staring at me and right then it was sort of like love, wasn't it? — Junot Diaz

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done. — Junot Diaz

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. — Junot Diaz

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field. — Junot Diaz

It took me sixteen years to write. — Junot Diaz

We were on our way to the colmado for an errand. — Junot Diaz

Because anything you can dream (he put his hand up) you can be. — Junot Diaz

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. — Junot Diaz

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all. — Junot Diaz

We hurt each other too well to let it drop — Junot Diaz

If this is the United States, mail me home. — Junot Diaz

But no matter what the truth, remember: Dominicans are Caribbean and therefore have an extraordinary tolerance for extreme phenomena — Junot Diaz

But you know exactly what kind of world we live in. It ain't no fucking Middle-earth. — Junot Diaz

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin. — Junot Diaz

Maybe we met out here and fell in love over bad barbecue. — Junot Diaz

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets. — Junot Diaz

A father is a hard thing to compass. — Junot Diaz

A romantic she was, but not a pendeja. — Junot Diaz

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. — Junot Diaz

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening. — Junot Diaz

where you'd parked your Civic. — Junot Diaz

I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight. — Junot Diaz

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it. — Junot Diaz

Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened. — Junot Diaz

One Ring. Like stumbling into — Junot Diaz

But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart. — Junot Diaz

When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation. — Junot Diaz

No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed. — Junot Diaz

Was I really reading my roommate's journal behind his back? Of course I was. — Junot Diaz

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble. — Junot Diaz

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically. — Junot Diaz

It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. — Junot Diaz

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight. — Junot Diaz

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons. — Junot Diaz

Some of our hearts are more Gothic and take to haunting. — Junot Diaz

I seem to be allergic to diligence — Junot Diaz

Porfirio Rubirosa. — Junot Diaz

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. — Junot Diaz

One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem about you online. It's called El Puto — Junot Diaz

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. — Junot Diaz

I'm a product of a fragmented world. — Junot Diaz

Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We. — Junot Diaz

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life. — Junot Diaz

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz

We're clocks, Abelard. Nothing more. — Junot Diaz

Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it. — Junot Diaz

You can't be a human without seeing. — Junot Diaz

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often. — Junot Diaz

Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth. — Junot Diaz

Any woman who laughs as dope as she does won't ever have trouble finding men. — Junot Diaz

I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety. — Junot Diaz

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should've arrested him for it. — Junot Diaz

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)- ... — Junot Diaz

I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me. — Junot Diaz

The world was ice and the ice burned with sunlight. — Junot Diaz

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? — Junot Diaz

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture — Junot Diaz

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse. — Junot Diaz

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs. — Junot Diaz

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy. — Junot Diaz

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those. — Junot Diaz

The only way out is in. — Junot Diaz

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work. — Junot Diaz

Elsewhere called the Strom Thurmond Maneuver.) Pujols of course blamed Beli for everything. Sat in the office of the rector and — Junot Diaz

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy. — Junot Diaz

A particularly Jersey malaise
the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres. — Junot Diaz

This is the perfect place for insight, for a person to become somebody better. — Junot Diaz

A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. — Junot Diaz

Privilege does not operate without silence. — Junot Diaz

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. — Junot Diaz

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes. — Junot Diaz

Jesus, Oscar, Rudolfo said nervously. You look like they put a shirt on a turd, — Junot Diaz