I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for… — Adam Johnson Citizens Copy Share Image
“Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality… — Adam Johnson Leadership Copy Share Image
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Familiar Copy Share Image
“Let this story be an inspiration when dealing with the weak-minded who share your communal housing blocks and the selfish who use… — Adam Johnson Happy ending Copy Share Image
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson Bribe Copy Share Image
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start… — Adam Johnson Being wise Copy Share Image
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of… — Adam Johnson Forever Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find… — Adam Johnson Blank Copy Share Image
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. — Adam Johnson Father Copy Share Image
“I wonder of what you must daily endure in America, having no government to protect you, no one to tell you what… — Adam Johnson Capitalism Copy Share Image
Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before… — Adam Johnson Gone Copy Share Image
“It's called a gui-tar. It's used to perform American rural music. It's said to be especially popular in Texas," he told her.… — Adam Johnson Decision making Copy Share Image
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with… — Adam Johnson Alternate Copy Share Image
“In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.” — Adam Johnson Gesture Copy Share Image
“The autopilot is a hands-free piece of electronic wizardry. It's not some brutal application of electricity like one of the Pubyok's car… — Adam Johnson Brainwashing Copy Share Image
“They’re about a woman whose beauty is like a rare flower. There is a man who has a great love for her,… — Adam Johnson Beauty Copy Share Image
“He had been the person who took. He’d been the one who was taken. And he’d been the one left behind. Next… — Adam Johnson Left behind Copy Share Image
“picture a pencil and eraser engaged in a beautiful dance across the page. The pencil's tip bursts with expression - squiggles, figures,… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy. — Adam Johnson Enemy Copy Share Image
“Was it this image of the woman she once was that made her fingers tremble? Or did she feel for this man… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to… — Adam Johnson Lies Copy Share Image
“That’s how he’d thought of most people— appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later… — Adam Johnson Life Copy Share Image
“sometimes the boys from Propaganda will nose around for a feel-good story to play to the citizens over the loudspeakers, but we’re… — Adam Johnson Propaganda Copy Share Image
“With a baby, I’d have something to show for all this. I’d have a reason. At the least, I’d have something to… — Adam Johnson Intelligence Copy Share Image
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