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Some Quotes by Junot Diaz
- A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone…
- 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…
- Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
- Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
- In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do…
- Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some…
- 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…
- Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's…
- 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…
- I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The next time someone gets in my face to fight, I'll show them pictures on my phone of an ant I once… — Nikhil Saluja
- There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire. — Norman Vincent Peale
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle