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.
ADAM JOHNSONIn 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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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