I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families. - Junot Diaz - Quotesmemo.com

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Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure. . . There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

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Junot Diaz

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

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I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

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I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.

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I look most like myself. . . when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

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