Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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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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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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