Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
J. K. ROWLINGFear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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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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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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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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Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
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If it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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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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If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
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Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.
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It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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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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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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Writing 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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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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