You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHowever much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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