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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.

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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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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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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
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Change Character Dangerous Entire Growth Populace Self Thinking
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
ADAM JOHNSON

Book Character City Imagine Literary Novel World Written Year
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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Citizen Country Genuine Highly Illegal InterAction Scripted Unique Visit
And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
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Change Conflict Important Paino Practsing Secretly Story Wise
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Familiar Fresh Good Inevitable Stories Story
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Future Imagination never Past Present Use
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
The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
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Come Create Fictional Idea Inspiration Mysterious Narrative Sense Stories Visible Write
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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Experience Forever Ghost Living Only People Range
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
Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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Country Discover Look Still Unique Wrong
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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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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Choose Father Love Much One Orphan Twice

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