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.”
ADAM JOHNSONAnd 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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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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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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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