He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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