The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
ADAM JOHNSONThe 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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Conjure 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!
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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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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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