“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
ADAM JOHNSONAll the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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