But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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All the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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