"The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones."

-- Junot Diaz

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“curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.”
“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isnâ€™t. And thatâ€™s a tough place to be because youâ€™re never satisfied.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.”
“Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.”
“I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.”

Source : "A life in books" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.
“Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.”
“Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.”

Source : Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.109, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.”

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