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Not being a real journalist—at least I did not consider myself one—I dreaded the prospect of covering the DPRK alongside so many veterans, until I realized how little they knew of North Korea, and how little they managed to find out. A ...more
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Heh. Y, journalism experience doesn’t compensate much for unavoidable ignorance.
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Timothy Geithner, STRESS TEST

Anne Tyler
“I always say that the way you write a novel is for the first 83 drafts you pretend that nobody is ever, ever going to read it.”
Anne Tyler

Reza Negarestani
“In Hidden Writing, a main plot is constructed to camouflage other plots (which can register themselves as plot holes) by overlapping them with the surface (superficially dynamic plot) or the grounded theme. In terms of such a writing, the main plot is the map or the concentration blueprint of plot holes (the other plots).”
Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Julian Fellowes
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
Julian Fellowes

Barbara Kingsolver
“I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's”
Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

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