And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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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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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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