Adam Johnson Quotes

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

  Adam Johnson

  Father, Orphan

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

  Adam Johnson

  Next Day, Onions, Breakfast

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• Escribir es un trabajo duro, y si algo es cierto sobre el proceso, es que una buena historia es difícil de encontrar y aún más difícil de plasmar en papel. ¿Qué hay menos romántico que mirar a solas una pantalla en blanco? ¿Y tenso? He cambiado poco de gato porque no sabía lo que mis personajes iban a decir a continuación.

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  Hard Work, Writing, Character

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

  Adam Johnson

  Past, Imagination, Use

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.109, Random House

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

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  Motivational, Self, Champion

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• Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!

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  Motivational, Adversity, Overcoming

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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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  Dog, Socialism, Communism

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House

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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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  People, Done

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.68, Random House

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• 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.

  Adam Johnson

  Gone, Today, Tomorrow

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

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  Enemy, Needs, Lessons

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.236, Random House

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• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

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  Jobs, Motivation, Character

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• 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.

  Adam Johnson

  Inspiration, Ideas, Stories

  "The Call For Collaboration" by Adam Johnson, therumpus.net. March 3, 2009.

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• What good's a captive without her captor?

  Adam Johnson

  Cautivos

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• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

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  Jobs, Character, Korea

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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 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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  Wise, Men, Piano

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• "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."

  Adam Johnson

  Heart, Names, Alive

  "The Orphan Master's Son".

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• 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.

  Adam Johnson

  Book, Character, Years

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• Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

  Adam Johnson

  Names, Problem, Solve

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• . . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

  Adam Johnson

  Loyalty, Taught

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• Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next. Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you've taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!

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  Motivational, Taken, Dust

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• 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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  Life, Flower, Rose

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.252, Random House

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• The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.

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  Stars, Dark, Night

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House

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• 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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  Real, Imagination, Darkness

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.15, Random House

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• 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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  People, Forever, Ghost

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• 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.

  Adam Johnson

  Carácter, Pensamiento, Ser

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