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Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer best known for his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." His work explores themes of identity, immigration, and the Dominican-American experience. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Here are 199 of his quotes:

Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have. (Junot Diaz)
She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all. View quote
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You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest. View quote
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You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those. View quote
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She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper. View quote
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Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. View quote
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Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. View quote
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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often. View quote
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Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God. View quote
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world. View quote
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The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should've arrested him for it. (Junot Diaz)
It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above. View quote
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In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get. View quote
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The only way out is in. View quote
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Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life. View quote
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I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change. View quote
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Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families. View quote
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I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet. View quote
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My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place. View quote
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We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain. View quote
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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 there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it. (Junot Diaz)
Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. View quote
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God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy. View quote
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If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original. View quote
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You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you? View quote
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Photo: Photo by Christopher Peterson, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: December 31, 1968
Quotes count: 199

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