All the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
ADAM JOHNSON. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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I 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.
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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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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 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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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 next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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