The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
ADAM JOHNSON[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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