Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
ADAM JOHNSONI 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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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 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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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