[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
ADAM JOHNSONBut 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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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