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Always Quotes by Junot Diaz
- 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.
- 'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide…
- 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…
- Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible…
- People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows…
- Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
- I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
- 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.
- I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the…
- I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like…
- I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to…
- 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…
- When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and…
More Always Quotes
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe