Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
ADAM JOHNSONImagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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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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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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