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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

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But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
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Character Conscripted Country Job Opposite Secondary Story Written
[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Bribe Communism Dog Obedience Obtained Socialism Threaten
What good’s a captive without her captor?
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Captive Captor Good Question
I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Champion Motivational Self Shadow Standing
Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Anything Names Problem Putting Solve
There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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Dictated Farmer Job Measure Opera Rest Singer Youth
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Change Character Dangerous Entire Growth Populace Self Thinking
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
ADAM JOHNSON

Familiar Fresh Good Inevitable Stories Story
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Choose Father Love Much One Orphan Twice
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Breakfast Day Murdered Next Onion Raw Served She Silent
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Every Loyalty Nobody Taught
Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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Again Buckle Conjure Drive Keeping Knee Strength
Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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Before Gone Match Nothing Out Strike Ten Thousand Today Tomorrow
Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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Anything Character Good Hard Process Story Work Writing
Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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Blind Bring Corner Dropped Dust Each Learnt Life Motivational Prepare Smash Stronger Taken
Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
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Adversity Allow Beaten Happen Hell Knee Knock Motivational never Overcoming World

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