For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
ADAM JOHNSONWhat good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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 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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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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Writing 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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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