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„Rushdie tvrdí, že tyrani a pisálci jsou přirozenými protivníky, ale takové rozdělení je podle mne příliš zjednodušující - to by z toho vyšli spisovatelé moc lacino. Já si myslím, že diktátoři prostě nesnesou konkurenci - stejně jako spisovatelé.“

Junot Díaz kniha Krátký, leč divuplný život Oskara Wajda

Originál: (en) Rushdie claims that tyrants and scribblers are natural antagonists, but I think that’s too simple; it lets writers off pretty easy. Dictators, in my opinion, just know competition when they see it. Same with writers. Like, after all, recognizes like.
Zdroj: Junot Díaz na pwf.cz http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/autori/junot-diaz/cz/
Zdroj: [Díaz, Juno, 2008, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Faber and Faber, 97, angličtina, 978-0-571-23973-3]

Junot Díaz: Citáty anglicky

“Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.”

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Junot Díaz kniha Krátký, leč divuplný život Oskara Wajda

Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Clavo saca clavo.
Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.”

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Junot Díaz kniha This Is How You Lose Her

Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her

“She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.”

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Junot Díaz kniha Drown

Zdroj: Drown

“The beauty! The beauty!”

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Zdroj: La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao

“The half life of love is forever.”

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Junot Díaz kniha This Is How You Lose Her

Varianta: The half-life of love is forever.
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her

“Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, ourselves to look like elves?”

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Junot Díaz kniha Krátký, leč divuplný život Oskara Wajda

Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.”

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Junot Díaz kniha This Is How You Lose Her

Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her

“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.”

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Junot Díaz kniha Krátký, leč divuplný život Oskara Wajda

Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

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Junot Díaz kniha This Is How You Lose Her

Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her

“… one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.”

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“If you think learning salsa is your future, you’re going to be pretty insufferable in salsa classes.”

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Lunch with the FT interview (July 2014) https://www.ft.com/content/a438f98e-01f4-11e4-bb71-00144feab7de

“I grew up in a world, [a] very New Jersey, American, Dominican, immigrant, African-American, Latino world. And, you know, I went to school and it was basically the same. I went to college; it was basically the same, where largely I wasn't really encouraged to imagine women as fully human. I was in fact pretty much — by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV — encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men. And so I think that a lot of guys, part of our journey is wrestling with, coming to face, our limited imagina[tion] and growing in a way that allows us not only to imagine women as fully human, but to imagine the things that we do to women — that we often do blithely, without thinking, we just sort of shrug off — as actually deeply troubling and as hurting another human being. And this seems like the simplest thing. A lot of people are like, 'Really, that's like a huge leap of knowledge, of the imagination?”

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But for a lot of guys, that is.
NPR interview (September 2012) http://www.npr.org/2012/09/11/160252399/fidelity-in-fiction-junot-diaz-deconstructs-a-cheater