Top 100 Adam Johnson Quotes

#1. we do not need sight to see what you have become.

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#2. Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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#3. This was the face that Ga had shown the world, that of a boy who had swallowed the things that had happened to him, but who wouldn't understand what they meant for a long, long time.

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#4. But the Americans ruin everything with cheese. They make it out of animal milk. Americans put it on everything - on their eggs at breakfast, on their noodles, they melt it on ground meat. They say Americans smell like butter, but no, it is cheese. With heat, it becomes an orange liquid.

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#5. There are those who are born, those who are made, and then there are ones like this guy, the kind who choose.

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#6. A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

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#7. She's read every word I've written," he said. "That's the truest way to know someone's heart.

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#8. Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University.

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#9. Jun Do held the book, felt its soft cover. "I could read some with you," she said. "Do you know of Christ?" Jun Do nodded. "I've been briefed on him.

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#10. This feeling of being in proximity to something that's lost to you, it seems like my whole life right now.

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#11. Nonc's pretty okay with the man's death, but the notion that he'll never get dressed again, that he's to die in a gown, seems strange and impossible.

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#12. The longer the night, the shorter the morning

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#13. The only way to shake your ghosts was to find them ...

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#14. He'd spent his life with orphans, he understood their special plight, so he didn't hate them like most people did. He just wasn't one of them.

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#15. It wasn't that I didn't know anyone's phone number - I didn't - it was that only at this moment did I realize I had no one to call. There wasn't a woman, a colleague, or even a relative that I had to contact. Didn't I have a single friend?

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#16. She lives in the apartment complex next door and has two daughters, a music blog and a committed relationship with alcohol.

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#17. CITIZENS, we bring good news! In your kitchens, in your offices, on your factory floors - wherever you hear this broadcast, turn up the volume! The first success we have to report is that our Grass into Meat Campaign is a complete

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#18. Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

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#19. All this information," I say. "Yet the world is more mysterious than ever.

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#20. In this way, you'll live forever.

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#21. only a book could be written to help the average citizen penetrate and understand a dream's mysteries. Officially, the government took no position on what occurred while its citizens were asleep, but isn't something of the dreamer to be found in his dream? And

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#22. He had been the person who took. He'd been the one who was taken. And he'd been the one left behind. Next he would find out what it was like to be all three at once.

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#23. Old women look all innocent and goody-two-shoes, but then they level some all-knowing eyes on your ass.

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#24. Graffiti, citizens, is the name for the way capitalists deface their public buildings.

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#25. Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on

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#26. If you keep your eyes closed, your mind will show you all kinds of crazy movies ... But with your eyes open, all you had to face was the nothingness of what you were really doing.

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#27. Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

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#28. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

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#29. I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

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#30. The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

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#31. 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.

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#32. The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.

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#33. Son draws comics of Mongolian invasions and the Civil Rights Movement -

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#34. That's how he'd thought of most people - appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later as if by flood .

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#35. In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.

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#36. I do not need to recall the past," I say. "I am certain of what it was.

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#37. 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.

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#38. To face the waves. They got battered while Officer So pull-started the motor. When the four of them were in and headed toward open water,

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#39. The wound of not knowing," Ga said to her. "That's the one that never heals." The

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#40. 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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#41. A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out." He

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#42. [I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

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#43. Gruesome that nobody wants to go near it. Then you slip away." "But the Canning Master's family,

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#44. It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

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#45. . . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

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#46. The truth is, though, that you don't need to die to know what it's like to be a ghost.

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

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#48. Sometimes the boys from Propaganda will nose around for a feel-good story to play to the citizens over the loudspeakers, but we're story takers, not storytellers.

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#49. Jun Do was thinking about all the popular definitions of love, that it was a pair of bare hands clasping an ember to keep it alive, that it was a pearl that shines forever, even in the belly of the eel that eats the oyster, that love was a bear that feeds you honey from its claws.

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#50. Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

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#51. literature is a fiction that tells a deeper truth,

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#52. You know what you are?" she said. "You're a survivor who has nothing to live for.

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#53. An ending to my story," he said. "My story's ended ten times already, and yet it never stops. The end keeps coming for me, and yet it takes everyone else. Orphans, friends, commanding officers, I outlast them all.

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#54. The Respect for Elders Retirement Home on Moranbong Street.

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

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#56. 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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#57. Do you think the Dear Leader's line should be read 'Love knows no replacement,' as if it's unthinkable to search for a substitute for love, or 'Love knows no replacement,' suggesting that love is sentient and is itself at a loss to comprehend its absence?

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#58. Nonc is on his side, looking at a boy whose breathing is untroubled for all he's been through, though there's a lack of shine in his eyes, as if the little light in him might someday go out. His breath is clean and perfect, though, sweet-smelling.

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#59. You can't leave me. I'm your captive," she said. "What good's a captive without her captor?

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#60. Acts of heroism are easy - becoming a hero is a bitch.

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#61. Real stories like this, human ones, could get you sent to prison, and it didn't matter what they were about. It didn't matter if the story was about an old woman or a squid attack - if it diverted emotion from the Dear Leader, it was dangerous.

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#62. Eyes - There is a greater love, one that from the lowest places calls us high. Yes,

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#63. Stories are factual ... If a man and his story are in conflict it is the man who must change ... In America it is the man who matters not the story.

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#64. Mayoimashita. Can you help me find my cat? - Watashi

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#65. The key to fighting in the dark was no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your imagination. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you. From

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#66. Inside, I'm assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment's hardwired loudspeaker. There's one in every apartment and factory floor in Pyongyang

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#67. Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

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#68. The inmates keep their distance and do what inmates always seem to do: affirm and reassure, make the future seem doable.

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

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#70. Since I sleep fully clothed, I'm able to answer right away. By sleeping with your clothes on, you don't need to climb under the sheets. You don't need to disturb a perfectly made bed or even fold the bed back into the couch.

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#71. Was it this image of the woman she once was that made her fingers tremble? Or did she feel for this man in her bed who'd quietly started weeping for reasons she didn't understand?

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#72. All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

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#73. That's what they say," Jun Do said. "But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done." The

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#74. But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

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#75. Do you feel for the man hungry enough to steal?" Commander Ga asked as they drove by. "Or for the men who must hunt him down?"
"Isn't it the bird who suffers?" Sun Moon asked.

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#76. What was it about English speakers that allowed them to talk into transmitters as if the sky were a diary?

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#77. Christian talk, when said in a non-Christian way, scares these Southerners to death.

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#78. Trauma narratives are hallmarked by fragmentation, broken chronology, changing perspectives, shifts in tone, and absented moments. I

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#79. for me. "I'm sorry that I let you

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#80. I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

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#81. What happened?" Buc asked him. "I told her the truth about something," Ga answered. "You've got to stop doing that," Buc said. "It's bad for people's health.

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#82. be the only one left. I'll bet I'm the

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#83. Sun Moon offered her Juche to him, and he gave her all he had of Songun policy.

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#84. Developments can happen right in front of you like that, you don't even see them.

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#85. Inside is where the son and the father will always be holding hands.

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#86. There is a talk that every father has with his son in which he brings the child to understand that there are ways we must act, things we must say, but inside, we are still us, we are family.

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#87. Aren't our lives a collision of the comic and the uncertain and the terrifying and the mundane?

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#88. They're for exercise, I think." "I've heard that," the old man said. "That Americans do pointless labor for fun.

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#89. You can barely make out the heavy wooden block of the contortion seat. I run my hands along it's contours, the wood grain smooth and polished from human flesh.

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#90. The things that make us human: freedom, art, choice, identity, expression, love. And

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#91. that feeling of being alone and together at the same time.

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#92. Are there labor camps here?" he asked.
"No," she said.
"Mandatory marriages, forced-criticism sessions, loudspeaker?"
She shook her head.
"Then I'm not sure I could ever feel free here," he said.

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#93. 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.

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#94. I'd always felt safe behind locked doors, but locks, I discovered, only locked you in. I

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#95. If only more people in life said, This is what I must have.

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#96. Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

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#97. 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. "It's also the instrument of choice for playing 'the blues,' which is a form of American music that chronicles the pain caused by poor decision making.

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#98. I know this," the Second Mate said. "A sexy girl thinks she can do anything.

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#99. Cancer is the worst way for a fictional wife to die.

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#100. 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 them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

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