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.
ADAM JOHNSONThere, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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