You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSelf pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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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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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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