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.
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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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