For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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