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.”
ADAM JOHNSONI 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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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 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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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