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I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
— Junot Diaz
The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
— Junot Diaz
The half-life of love is forever.
— Junot Diaz
You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.
— Junot Diaz
She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
— Junot Diaz
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
— Junot Diaz
This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.
— Junot Diaz
Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
— Junot Diaz
It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That
— Junot Diaz
If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
— Junot Diaz
Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.
— Junot Diaz
These were the early Clinton years but the economy was still sucking an eighties cock ...
— Junot Diaz
I was staring at you and you were staring at me and right then it was sort of like love, wasn't it?
— Junot Diaz
We were on our way to the colmado for an errand.
— Junot Diaz
It took me sixteen years to write.
— Junot Diaz
If this is the United States, mail me home.
— Junot Diaz
A father is a hard thing to compass.
— Junot Diaz
We hurt each other too well to let it drop
— Junot Diaz
When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.
— Junot Diaz
When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.
— Junot Diaz
where you'd parked your Civic.
— Junot Diaz
One Ring. Like stumbling into
— Junot Diaz
But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
— Junot Diaz
No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed.
— Junot Diaz
A romantic she was, but not a pendeja.
— Junot Diaz
As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.
— Junot Diaz
Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.
— Junot Diaz
I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.
— Junot Diaz
I seem to be allergic to diligence
— Junot Diaz
Porfirio Rubirosa.
— Junot Diaz
I'm a product of a fragmented world.
— Junot Diaz
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
— Junot Diaz
We're clocks, Abelard. Nothing more.
— Junot Diaz
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
— Junot Diaz
You can't be a human without seeing.
— Junot Diaz
The world was ice and the ice burned with sunlight.
— Junot Diaz
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?
— Junot Diaz
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture
— Junot Diaz
I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.
— Junot Diaz
Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.
— Junot Diaz
The only way out is in.
— Junot Diaz
God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
— Junot Diaz
A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things.
— Junot Diaz
Privilege does not operate without silence.
— Junot Diaz
