If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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