I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYou get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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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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