For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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.
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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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