Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSDoing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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