"She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas."

-- Junot Diaz

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“Animals are like people because people are animals.”
“How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with ] both parties, it's beyond belief.”
“For me [in my stand-ups] I do what is from the heart. I do what I relate to, what I can talk about, things that I can define. I don't try to talk about things just because they might be a popular subject. I talk about things I know about.”
“Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.”
“All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.”
“A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.”
“Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?”
“Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.”

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