You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf 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.
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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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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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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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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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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