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.
ADAM JOHNSONThat hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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