Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
ADAM JOHNSONThe next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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[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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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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 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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