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.
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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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