[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
ADAM JOHNSONConjure 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!
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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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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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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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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