Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
ADAM JOHNSONToday, 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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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