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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Aidan Chambers

Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Against Strongest Them Those Use Weakness
Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Altered Building Fixed One Puling Room Size Wall
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Friend Lovable Memorable Most People
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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Chance Course Depend Heartbeat Missing Opportunity Second
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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Book Doing Important Money People Size Writing
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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Beautiful Look Past Pat Quiet Sight Tense Using
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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Always Ask Believe Boy Man Right Want
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Lovely River Strange Thought
Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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Just Like Love Now Possible Same Someone Time
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Almost Made Obvious Reader
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Consciousness Form Seeing Story Thought World
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
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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Actually Being Good Love Term Thinking True
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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Conscious Everything Experience First Teenage Time Year
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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Always Despair Give Giving Hope never Stick Truth Up
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader

Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

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