A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
ADAM JOHNSONThe 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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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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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