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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWhen 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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 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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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