Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to 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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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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