I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
ADAM JOHNSONWriting is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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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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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
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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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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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