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.
ADAM JOHNSONBut people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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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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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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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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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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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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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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