I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. 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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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