But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
ADAM JOHNSONI am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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 world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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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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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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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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