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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The longer the night, the shorter the morning

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.

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

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 .

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

literature is a fiction that tells a deeper truth,

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

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

The Respect for Elders Retirement Home on Moranbong Street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

At length, in depth, their spirited exchange culminated in a mutual exclaim of Party understanding.

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,

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

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.

In this way, you'll live forever.

They opened the bilge, slopping out all the plane's sewage in a midnight

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