Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
J. K. ROWLINGWriting for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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