"The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast……" — Adam Johnson
"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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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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