A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
ADAM JOHNSONThe darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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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 next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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