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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.
Aidan Chambers
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Aidan Chambers
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 27
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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I cannot live without reading.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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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 plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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