I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
ADAM JOHNSONHad she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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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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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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