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.
ADAM JOHNSONStill, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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