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 JOHNSONAll the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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