"In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

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Source : "Becoming a Writer". www.oprah.com. November, 2009.

Junot Diaz

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“There is this arrogant feeling of being stronger than human. Humans are weak. They submit to their emotions, and vampires do not. Humans are very egoistic, and vampires are not.”
“Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.”

Source : "GOP congressman: Ebola could spread across the border". www.msnbc.com. July 15, 2014.
“Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.”

Source : "Senate Submerged in Mortgage Scandal". "Hannity&Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2008.
“No matter how many times I witness the miracle of someone having their sight restored, I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. When the eye patch comes off just 24 hours after surgery and you see that smile light up the room, you are witnessing a life being transformed.”
“They say the good die young, so the bad die old. Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.”
“If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.”
“No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.”
“Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost”

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