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!
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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