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When she smiles niggers ask he...

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

Junot Diaz 254 quotes

You're the only person I've ev...

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

Junot Diaz 254 quotes

Do you remember? When the figh...

Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.

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I'm like everybody else: weak,...

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

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Tell her that you love her hai...

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

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That was the summer when every...

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

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It's just a matter of willpowe...

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

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Instead of lowering your head ...

Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

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She smelled like herself, like...

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.

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In the months that follow you ...

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

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I can see myself watching him ...

I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.

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I guess it's true what they sa...

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

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Love is understood, in a histo...

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

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People are always fascinated b...

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

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God bless perseverance. Becaus...

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

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My African roots made me what ...

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

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Colleagues are a wonderful thi...

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

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Infidelity raises profound que...

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

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When I got heartbroken at 20, ...

When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone had driven a 757 right through me.

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I discovered early that as an ...

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....