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.
ADAM JOHNSONOrphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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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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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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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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.
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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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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 name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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