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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Future Imagination never Past Present Use
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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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Choose Father Love Much One Orphan Twice
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
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Breakfast Day Murdered Next Onion Raw Served She Silent
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
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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Adversity Allow Beaten Happen Hell Knee Knock Motivational never Overcoming World
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
Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Anything Names Problem Putting Solve
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
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Every Loyalty Nobody Taught
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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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
But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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After Done Live People Survive Thing
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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Alive Always Face Heart Inside Matter Part Someone
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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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Action Desire Feeling Hidden Longing Personal Revealing True Whispering
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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Daisies Eat Flower Hungry Life Marigold never Pansies Rose
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
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.
ADAM JOHNSON

Declared Factual Farmer Maestro Man Music Piano State Stories Virtuoso Wise
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
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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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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Biggest Champion Clear Dust Hit Knock Nothing Offer Standing Victor

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