The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
ADAM JOHNSONLike putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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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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And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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