Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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]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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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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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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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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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!
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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