And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHistory dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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 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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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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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 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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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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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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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