Junot Díaz
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And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. JUNOT DíAZ You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote... JUNOT DíAZ If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you... JUNOT DíAZ There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of... JUNOT DíAZ But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,' he wrote back, 'This is my home. JUNOT DíAZ Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they ... JUNOT DíAZ That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s noth... JUNOT DíAZ You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has ama... JUNOT DíAZ We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there ... JUNOT DíAZ Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though th... JUNOT DíAZ It's never the changes we want that change everything. JUNOT DíAZ Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun... JUNOT DíAZ Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in... JUNOT DíAZ Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywher... JUNOT DíAZ The next day you look at the new pages. For once you don't want to burn them or give up writing fore... JUNOT DíAZ You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this... JUNOT DíAZ Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play w... JUNOT DíAZ Some of our hearts are more Gothic and take to haunting. JUNOT DíAZ But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only wa... JUNOT DíAZ A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. JUNOT DíAZ For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and ... JUNOT DíAZ You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the... JUNOT DíAZ ...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart ... JUNOT DíAZ They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of ... JUNOT DíAZ She never would admit it, but she felt utterly exposed at El Redentor, all those pale eyes gnawing a... JUNOT DíAZ Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is s... JUNOT DíAZ I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes. JUNOT DíAZ Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one. JUNOT DíAZ We all know that there are language forms that are considered impolite and out of order, no matter w... JUNOT DíAZ You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a co... JUNOT DíAZ Don’t tell her that your moms knew right away what it was, that she recognized its smell from the ... JUNOT DíAZ In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to b... JUNOT DíAZ Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often. JUNOT DíAZ I watched commercial ave. slide past and there in the distance were the lights of route 18. that was... JUNOT DíAZ He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said ... JUNOT DíAZ The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean ... JUNOT DíAZ Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was ... JUNOT DíAZ It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it. JUNOT DíAZ You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?JUNOT DíAZ You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ... JUNOT DíAZ I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse,... JUNOT DíAZ Read more than you write, live more than you read JUNOT DíAZ What is clear is that being a reader/fanboy (for lack of a better term) helped him get through the r... JUNOT DíAZ His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of a chance he had for young love. Everybody else goin... JUNOT DíAZ She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing. JUNOT DíAZ It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing... JUNOT DíAZ Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've ... JUNOT DíAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ JUNOT DIAZ All fruits do not ripen in one season. 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[Fr., An, ma foi, je n'en sais rien; moi je ... ANDOCHE JUNOT (DUC D'ABRANTES)
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The scars of others should teach us caution. 
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. 
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen... 
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. 
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ... 
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav... 
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinar... 
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not s... 
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