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!
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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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