Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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 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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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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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