Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
AIDAN CHAMBERSBecome 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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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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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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 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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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