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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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Cast Country Death Dictator Eye Freedom Literature Truth
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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Change Conflict Important Paino Practsing Secretly Story Wise
[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Bribe Communism Dog Obedience Obtained Socialism Threaten
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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Darkness Head Imagination Inside Nothing Real Stories
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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Action Censored Character Essential Human Punish State
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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Dictated Farmer Job Measure Opera Rest Singer Youth
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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Character Conscripted Country Job Opposite Secondary Story Written
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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Experience Forever Ghost Living Only People Range
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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Alone Character Edgy Less Little Next Romantic Staring
Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Anything Names Problem Putting Solve
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Change Character Dangerous Entire Growth Populace Self Thinking
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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Citizen Country Genuine Highly Illegal InterAction Scripted Unique Visit
“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Alive Heart Name Person Remember Someone
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!
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Again Buckle Conjure Drive Keeping Knee Strength
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Every Loyalty Nobody Taught
What good’s a captive without her captor?
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Captive Captor Good Question

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