I cannot live without reading.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHow 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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