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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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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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 get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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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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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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