A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
ADAM JOHNSONStill, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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