“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
ADAM JOHNSONUse your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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