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Because you live in two or three worlds doesn't mean you don't live in any of them.

— Ilan Stavans Interview (1999)

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Immigrant life in general is miserable, as one sees in the literature produced by those who experienced the journey.

A life in two languages is a life experienced twice.

Reading a classic, I believe, ought to entail an element of foreignness...Classics are windows into an epoch, not only in content but in form.

Interview (2021)

Isn’t that the dream of democracy, to allow its dwellers to have a voice? The only way to achieve that is to allow them to appreciate the voices of the past.

Interview (2021)

I don't think Latinos are a separate nation in the U.S. 'We are entering, belonging and sharing that melting pot with many other minority groups.

Interview (1999)

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