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!
ADAM JOHNSONLike putting a name to my problems would solve anything
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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 am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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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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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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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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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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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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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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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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