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Junot Diaz Quotes

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 31, 1968

Topics

Love People Book Story Loss Plan

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perfection Man Enough Admit Insight

It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

Max Martin

Time Me Song Feel Remember You

Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

Anand Giridharadas

Technology Promises Feel Loss Magic

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Stephen King

Life Immortality Own Each Makes

I've been wearing Supergas forever. I'm always in flats, running around, so it makes sense for me.

Suki Waterhouse

Me Always Forever Sense Been Around

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

Steven Spielberg

Love Father Light Me Think Love Me

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Tom Peters

You Expect Give Get Lot Prune

My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry, had kids because that's what was done. Liked crossword puzzles, liked lilac trees, liked baking in the sun, and liked Bing Crosby.

Judith Viorst

Mother Sun Trees Name Baking Born

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

Jonathan Coe

World Regret America Never Rights

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

David Selby

Support Done Important Reason Arts

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Christian Dior

Women Know Pass Pace Women Are Most

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Christie Hefner

Time Money Remember Year I Can Own