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Adam Johnson Quotes

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar Picture Quote #1

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past Picture Quote #1

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything Picture Quote #1

... nobody every taught you loyalty Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw Picture Quote #1

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much Picture Quote #1

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range Picture Quote #1

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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar (Adam Johnson Quotes) But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done (Adam Johnson Quotes) 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 (Adam Johnson Quotes) 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 (Adam Johnson Quotes) 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. (Adam Johnson Quotes) 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. (Adam Johnson Quotes) Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward. (Adam Johnson Quotes) 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. (Adam Johnson 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. (Adam Johnson Quotes) Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past (Adam Johnson Quotes) Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything (Adam Johnson Quotes) ... nobody every taught you loyalty (Adam Johnson Quotes) 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 (Adam Johnson Quotes) The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw (Adam Johnson Quotes) Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much (Adam Johnson Quotes) 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 Quotes)