Frasi di Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz è uno scrittore dominicano naturalizzato statunitense, vincitore del Premio Pulitzer per la narrativa nel 2008 con il romanzo La breve favolosa vita di Oscar Wao.

Nato a Santo Domingo, nella Repubblica Dominicana, Díaz si trasferisce con la sua famiglia nel New Jersey all'età di sei anni. Consegue un Bachelor of Arts presso la Rutgers University e dopo aver ottenuto un MFA in Scrittura Creativa presso la Cornell University, nel 1995 pubblica il suo primo libro, una raccolta di racconti intitolata Drown. Nel 2007 esce il suo primo romanzo, La breve favolosa vita di Oscar Wao, seguito poi da un'altra raccolta di racconti, È così che la perdi, nel 2012. Nello stesso anno, viene pubblicato sul The New Yorker Monstro, un racconto fantascientifico che sarebbe dovuto diventare un romanzo, ma che l'autore dichiarerà in seguito di aver abbandonato. Nel marzo del 2018 è uscito Islandborn, un libro per l'infanzia. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Dicembre 1968   •   Altri nomi جونو دیاز
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Junot Díaz: Frasi in inglese

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”

Junot Díaz libro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Origine: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”

Junot Díaz libro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Origine: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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

Junot Díaz libro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Origine: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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

Junot Díaz libro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Origine: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“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.”

Junot Díaz libro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Origine: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“… sometimes a start is all we ever get.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”

Junot Díaz libro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Origine: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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

Junot Díaz libro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Origine: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself.
- But your yourself sucks!
- It is, lamentably, all I have.”

Junot Díaz libro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Origine: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.”

Junot Díaz libro The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Origine: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

“The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.”

Junot Díaz libro This Is How You Lose Her

Origine: This Is How You Lose Her

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