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Would 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.
- I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
- Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to…
- 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 mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the…
- I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the…
- I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things…
- It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work…
- 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…
- 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…
More Would Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange