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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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 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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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