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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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Aidan Chambers
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 27
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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.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. 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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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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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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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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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