Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
ADAM JOHNSONImagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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