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!
ADAM JOHNSONFor an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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