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.
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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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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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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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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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