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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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?
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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