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
AIDAN CHAMBERSHe thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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