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Junot Diaz Quotes: 'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
         

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.


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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 of your family.



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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.



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She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.



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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.



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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.



I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.



[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.





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