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.
ADAM JOHNSONUse your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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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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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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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.
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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