You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSMiss the moment and you never get a chance again.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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