Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
ADAM JOHNSONToday, 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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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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 next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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.
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