Aidan Chambers Quotes, Want Quotes, Know Yourself Quotes

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

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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. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

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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! 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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

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The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. 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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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I cannot live without reading.

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

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Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

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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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