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.
ADAM JOHNSONStill, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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