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 JOHNSONLife 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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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