Frases de Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz é um escritor dominicano-americano, professor de escrita criativa no Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts e editor de ficção na Boston Review . Ele também atua no conselho de conselheiros da Freedom University, uma organização voluntária na Geórgia que fornece instruções pós-secundárias para imigrantes sem documentos. O ponto central do trabalho de Díaz é a experiência do imigrante, particularmente a experiência do imigrante latino.Nascido em Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, Díaz imigrou com sua família para Nova Jersey aos seis anos de idade. Ele graduou-se como Bachelor of Arts pela Universidade Rutgers, e logo depois de se formar criou o personagem "Yunior", que serviu como narrador de vários de seus livros posteriores. Depois de obter seu MFA na Universidade de Cornell, Díaz publicou seu primeiro livro, a coleção de contos de 1995 Drown .

Diaz recebeu o Prêmio Pulitzer de Ficção de 2008 por seu romance The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao e recebeu uma bolsa "Genius Grant" da Fundação MacArthur em 2012. Nomeado presidente do Conselho Pulitzer em abril de 2018, deixou o cargo logo após controvérsias sobre alegações de assédio sexual serem feitas pela autora Zinzi Clemmons e várias outras escritoras. A questão gerou controvérsia em círculos feministas sobre o papel da raça ou etnia na resposta do público e da mídia a tais alegações. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Dezembro 1968   •   Outros nomes جونو دیاز
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Junot Díaz Frases famosas

“Porfirio Rubirosa.”

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz: Frases em inglês

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”

Junot Díaz livro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”

Junot Díaz livro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”

Junot Díaz livro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

Junot Díaz livro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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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 Díaz livro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“… sometimes a start is all we ever get.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”

Junot Díaz livro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”

Junot Díaz livro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself.
- But your yourself sucks!
- It is, lamentably, all I have.”

Junot Díaz livro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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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 Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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“The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

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