Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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 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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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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 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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