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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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The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.

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

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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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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

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What good's a captive without her captor?

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

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