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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 am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

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.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

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I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.