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!
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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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