For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
ADAM JOHNSONI’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.
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]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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