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.
ADAM JOHNSONUse your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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.
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