But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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