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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

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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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Character Conscripted Country Job Opposite Secondary Story Written
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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Cheesy Duty Fel People Sound Speak Tell Themselves Try Trying
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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Come Create Fictional Idea Inspiration Mysterious Narrative Sense Stories Visible Write
[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Bribe Communism Dog Obedience Obtained Socialism Threaten
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Future Imagination never Past Present Use
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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Darkness Head Imagination Inside Nothing Real Stories
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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Action Censored Character Essential Human Punish State
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Change Character Dangerous Entire Growth Populace Self Thinking
What good’s a captive without her captor?
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Captive Captor Good Question
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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Attention Book Current Focused Light Share Thinking Topic
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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Again Buckle Conjure Drive Keeping Knee Strength
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Familiar Fresh Good Inevitable Stories Story
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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Daisies Eat Flower Hungry Life Marigold never Pansies Rose
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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Change Conflict Important Paino Practsing Secretly Story Wise
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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Book Center Character Imagine Person Place Read Single Truly
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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Citizen Country Genuine Highly Illegal InterAction Scripted Unique Visit

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