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!
ADAM JOHNSONThe next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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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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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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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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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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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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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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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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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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