But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they’re always with you because they’re a part of you.”
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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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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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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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