Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHow do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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I cannot live without reading.
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