"Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If……" — Adam Johnson
"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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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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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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