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.
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!
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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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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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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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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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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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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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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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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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