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Thinking Quotes by Junot Diaz
- Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most…
- For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an…
- I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.
- 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 think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But…
- 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…
- 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…
- We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart?…
- 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…
- That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think…
- And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
- Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.
- Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could…
- You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.
- You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.
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