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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.

Aidan Chambers

Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Altered Building Fixed One Puling Room Size Wall
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Consciousness Form Seeing Story Thought World
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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Always Despair Give Giving Hope never Stick Truth Up
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Difficult Explain Knowing Only Sometimes Yourself
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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Attention Belief Exist Giving Glad Mean Reality Think Thinking Willing World
There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Know Time When Yourself
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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Conscious Everything Experience First Teenage Time Year
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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Clever Imagine Know Mind Same Someone Strange Thing Two
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Almost Made Obvious Reader
She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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Beautiful Look Past Pat Quiet Sight Tense Using
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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Attractive Beautiful Become Celebrity Conventionally Fact Impressive More
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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Alive Anyone Feel Help Herself Know More Need Seeming Someone Think Unsettele
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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Chance Course Depend Heartbeat Missing Opportunity Second
They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Change Depending Proportion Shape Sometimes Unchange
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Anyone Pay Price Should
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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Always Being Crush Flood Flow Love Real River Sea Strength Tide

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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