In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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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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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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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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