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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Aidan Chambers

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Aidan Chambers
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 27
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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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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