The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
ADAM JOHNSONLife 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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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.”
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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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