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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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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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I cannot live without reading.
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