What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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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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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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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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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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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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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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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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