. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
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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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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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