Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
ADAM JOHNSONTo 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.”
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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All 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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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