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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.

Aidan Chambers

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
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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Book Doing Important Money People Size Writing
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Again Chance Get Miss Moments never
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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Against Argue Case Faithfully Logical Rational
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Almost Made Obvious Reader
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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Always Despair Give Giving Hope never Stick Truth Up
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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Already Ever Love More Something Think Time
The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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Always Ebbing Fancy Goes Infatuation Love Passing Proof Thing
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Difficult Explain Knowing Only Sometimes Yourself
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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Compromise Content Important Language People Thinking
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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Clever Imagine Know Mind Same Someone Strange Thing Two
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Lovely River Strange Thought
And trust dies from ifs and buts
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But Dies From Trust
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Alive Feel Name Pleased Saying Speak Wanted
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Future History Made Past Path Present

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