The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
ADAM JOHNSONThe next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
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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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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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