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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Adam Johnson

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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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All Enemy Lesson Life Need Taught
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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Dictated Farmer Job Measure Opera Rest Singer Youth
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Change Character Dangerous Entire Growth Populace Self Thinking
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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Change Conflict Important Paino Practsing Secretly Story Wise
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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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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Alone Character Edgy Less Little Next Romantic Staring
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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Declared Factual Farmer Maestro Man Music Piano State Stories Virtuoso Wise
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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Cast Country Death Dictator Eye Freedom Literature Truth
I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Champion Motivational Self Shadow Standing
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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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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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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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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