The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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If 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.
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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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