Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIs it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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.
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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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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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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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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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