It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J. K. ROWLINGSometimes 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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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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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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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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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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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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You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.
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Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.
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Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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