In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Yeonmi Park)
- Your Highlight on Location 696-699 | Added on Monday, July 12, 2021 11:28:11 PM
North Koreans have two stories running in their heads at all times, like trains on parallel tracks. One is what you are taught to believe; the other is what you see with your own eyes. It wasn’t until I escaped to South Korea and read a translation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that I found a word for this peculiar condition: doublethink. This is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time—and somehow not go crazy.
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Yeonmi Park)
- Your Highlight on Location 1191-1193 | Added on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:43:31 AM
once you start trading for yourself, you start thinking for yourself. Before the public distribution system collapsed, the government alone decided who would survive and who would starve. The markets took away the government’s control. My small market transactions made me realize that I had some control over my own fate.
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Yeonmi Park)
- Your Highlight on Location 2448-2449 | Added on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 6:24:47 PM
I hid a razor blade in the belt of my tweed jacket so that I could slit my own throat before they sent me back to North Korea.
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