Barbara Demick quotes
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“North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?”
-- Barbara DemickSource : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta
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“There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.”
-- Barbara DemickSource : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.60, Granta
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“North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives.”
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“A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?”
-- Barbara DemickSource : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta
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“One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.”
-- Barbara DemickSource : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.106, Granta
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“The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.”
-- Barbara Demick
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
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Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta
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