Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
ADAM JOHNSONConjure 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!
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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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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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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