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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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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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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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 people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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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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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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