However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSelf pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against 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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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