Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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