Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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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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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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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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