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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

Adam Johnson

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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Character Conscripted Country Job Opposite Secondary Story Written
Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Anything Names Problem Putting Solve
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Every Loyalty Nobody Taught
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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Before Gone Match Nothing Out Strike Ten Thousand Today Tomorrow
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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Anything Character Good Hard Process Story Work Writing
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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Attention Book Current Focused Light Share Thinking Topic
To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they’re always with you because they’re a part of you.”
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Alive Always Face Heart Inside Matter Part Someone
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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Citizen Country Genuine Highly Illegal InterAction Scripted Unique Visit
What good’s a captive without her captor?
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Captive Captor Good Question
[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Bribe Communism Dog Obedience Obtained Socialism Threaten
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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Darkness Head Imagination Inside Nothing Real Stories
“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Alive Heart Name Person Remember Someone
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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Biggest Champion Clear Dust Hit Knock Nothing Offer Standing Victor
There, 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.
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Dictated Farmer Job Measure Opera Rest Singer Youth
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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Daisies Eat Flower Hungry Life Marigold never Pansies Rose
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Familiar Fresh Good Inevitable Stories Story

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