The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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 pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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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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