Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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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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 world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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