Adam Johnson Quotes, Book Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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

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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

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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. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.

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

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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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