You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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