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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

Aidan Chambers

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
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Author Book Confession Life Matter Most Need Speak Thing
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Alive Feel Name Pleased Saying Speak Wanted
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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Actually Being Good Love Term Thinking True
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
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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Attention Belief Exist Giving Glad Mean Reality Think Thinking Willing World
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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Always Despair Give Giving Hope never Stick Truth Up
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
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Always Ebbing Fancy Goes Infatuation Love Passing Proof Thing
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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Book Doing Important Money People Size Writing
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Excite Full Hurt Joy Sadness Terror
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Consciousness Form Seeing Story Thought World
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Lovely River Strange Thought
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Always Life Like Novel One
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Better Flow Let Go
Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Just Like Love Now Possible Same Someone Time

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