Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
ADAM JOHNSONI know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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!
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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