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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

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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 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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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. 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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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! 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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"A name isn't a person." Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. 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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

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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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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

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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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[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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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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Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. 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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. 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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What good's a captive without her captor?

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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

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