You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
AIDAN CHAMBERSDoing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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