Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
ADAM JOHNSON“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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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’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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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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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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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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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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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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