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Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer.
* He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1968.
* He immigrated to the United States with his family when he was six years old.
* He is the author of three books: Drown (1996), This Is How You Lose Her (2012), and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007).
* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
* Díaz has also received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
* He is a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* He is a vocal advocate for diversity in the literary world.
* His work has been praised for its humor, its insights into the immigrant experience, and its complex and nuanced portrayal of race and gender.

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

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

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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.

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

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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

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That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.

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

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