Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
AIDAN CHAMBERSReaders 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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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 passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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