They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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