Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
ADAM JOHNSONImagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they’re always with you because they’re a part of you.”
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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