For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
ADAM JOHNSONSometimes 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!
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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 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 urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
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