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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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 don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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I cannot live without reading.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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