Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
ADAM JOHNSON“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
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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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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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