Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSEven if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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 when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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