But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
ADAM JOHNSONThe 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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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!
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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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