[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
ADAM JOHNSONWhere 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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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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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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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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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There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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