Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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