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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.
ADAM JOHNSON

Cheesy Duty Fel People Sound Speak Tell Themselves Try Trying
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
ADAM JOHNSON

Future Imagination never Past Present Use
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.
ADAM JOHNSON

Come Create Fictional Idea Inspiration Mysterious Narrative Sense Stories Visible Write
But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
ADAM JOHNSON

After Done Live People Survive Thing
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
ADAM JOHNSON

Every Loyalty Nobody Taught
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.
ADAM JOHNSON

Attention Book Current Focused Light Share Thinking Topic
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!
ADAM JOHNSON

Biggest Champion Clear Dust Hit Knock Nothing Offer Standing Victor
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
ADAM JOHNSON

Experience Forever Ghost Living Only People Range
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
ADAM JOHNSON

Breakfast Day Murdered Next Onion Raw Served She Silent
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 JOHNSON

Citizen Country Genuine Highly Illegal InterAction Scripted Unique Visit
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!
ADAM JOHNSON

Again Buckle Conjure Drive Keeping Knee Strength
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
ADAM JOHNSON

All Enemy Lesson Life Need Taught
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
ADAM JOHNSON

Book Character City Imagine Literary Novel World Written Year
That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
ADAM JOHNSON

Bitter Bright Consume Dandelion Enough Face Hip Hungry Person Rose Stem Violas
Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
ADAM JOHNSON

Book Center Character Imagine Person Place Read Single Truly
I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
ADAM JOHNSON

Champion Motivational Self Shadow Standing

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