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First Quotes by Junot Diaz
- 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…
- You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.
- I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness…
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky if…
- You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I…
- A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult…
- Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time…
- but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
- Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle