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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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“Depois olhas para ela e sorris um sorriso que o teu rosto hipócrita irá recordar até ao fim dos teus dias. Querida, dizes, isto é apenas um capítulo do meu romance.
É assim que a perdes.”

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This Is How You Lose Her

“Ana Iris perguntou-me se eu o amava e eu falei-lhe das lâmpadas na minha antiga casa na capital, que estavam sempre a tremeluzir e uma pessoa nunca sabia se a luz se iria ou não abaixo. A gente interrompia o que estava a fazer e ficava à espera; não conseguíamos continuar enquanto as luzes não se decidissem. É assim que eu me sinto, disse-lhe eu.”

Junot Díaz livro This Is How You Lose Her

This Is How You Lose Her

“Porfirio Rubirosa.”

Junot Díaz livro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.”

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“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”

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“A person doesn't mourn forever.”

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“That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.”

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“It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.”

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“Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.”

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“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”

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“… and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.”

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“You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see you every day.

At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.”

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“Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.”

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“Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.”

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“I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.”

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“As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.”

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“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.”

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“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”

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“Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.”

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“Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.”

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“Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.”

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“I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.”

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“The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.”

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“It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.”

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“Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.”

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“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture”

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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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“In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”

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“I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.”

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“Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”

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“The only way out is in.”

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“Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.”

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