“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
ADAM JOHNSONI am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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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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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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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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