You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYou have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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