The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSometimes 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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