"Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that."

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[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.

— Junot Diaz