I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
AIDAN CHAMBERSBecome more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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I cannot live without reading.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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