What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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