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You 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…
- 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…
- Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
- Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.
- Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
- I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.
- I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.
- Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.
- You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.
- 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…
- 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…
- Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative…
- My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one…
- The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes…
- Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have…
- 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…
- So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know,…
- You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she…
- Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.
- Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.
More You Quotes
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- 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
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide