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 JOHNSONImagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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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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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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Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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