“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
ADAM JOHNSONStill, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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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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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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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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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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