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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

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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All Enemy Lesson Life Need Taught
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Breakfast Day Murdered Next Onion Raw Served She Silent
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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Book Center Character Imagine Person Place Read Single Truly
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Future Imagination never Past Present Use
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
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
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Every Loyalty Nobody Taught
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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Again Buckle Conjure Drive Keeping Knee Strength
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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Bitter Bright Consume Dandelion Enough Face Hip Hungry Person Rose Stem Violas
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
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
The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
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Come Create Fictional Idea Inspiration Mysterious Narrative Sense Stories Visible Write
Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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Country Discover Look Still Unique Wrong
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
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!
ADAM JOHNSON

Biggest Champion Clear Dust Hit Knock Nothing Offer Standing Victor
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.
ADAM JOHNSON

Change Conflict Important Paino Practsing Secretly Story Wise

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