. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
ADAM JOHNSONOnce 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!
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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