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!
ADAM JOHNSONThe 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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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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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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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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