In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
ADAM JOHNSONStill, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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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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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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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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