If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSMiss the moment and you never get a chance again.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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