“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
ADAM JOHNSONWhat good’s a captive without her captor?
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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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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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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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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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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