There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIs it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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.
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