Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
ADAM JOHNSONFor an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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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Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
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