"So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning."

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I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

— Junot Diaz