"For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity……" — Adam Johnson
"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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18 Quotes by Adam Johnson
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever…
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand…
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