Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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