Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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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To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they’re always with you because they’re a part of you.”
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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