Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYou get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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 huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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