Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSelf pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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