Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Junot Diaz quotes, Junot Diaz sayings, and Junot Diaz proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.Junot Diaz
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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.Junot Diaz
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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.Junot Diaz
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She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for latinas.Junot Diaz
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It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.Junot Diaz
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Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.Junot Diaz
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Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.Junot Diaz
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Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.Junot Diaz
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We know story collections end when they end, as well – the pages serving as a countdown – but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.Junot Diaz
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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.Junot Diaz
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If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.Junot Diaz
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I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.Junot Diaz
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I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.Junot Diaz
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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 don't judge.Junot Diaz
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Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations – but its counter-spell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.Junot Diaz
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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
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She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.Junot Diaz
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You can't regret the life you didn't lead.Junot Díaz
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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.Junot Diaz