Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
ADAM JOHNSON“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
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The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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