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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSMiss the moment and you never get a chance again.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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How 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.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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I cannot live without reading.
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