I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLife is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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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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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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