It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
J. K. ROWLINGCourtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
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I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
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Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
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The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
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I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.
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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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Time is making fools of us again.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
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Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again.
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Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
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