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Inspirational Quotes by Aidan Chambers
- The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
- Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
- Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
- You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
- History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
- Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
- We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
- 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…
- I cannot live without reading.
- 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.
- And trust dies from ifs and buts
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento