. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
ADAM JOHNSONUse your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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