Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.
J. K. ROWLINGUnderstanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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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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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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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.
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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
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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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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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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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No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
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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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Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
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We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
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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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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
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In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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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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A good first impression can work wonders.
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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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Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.
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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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It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
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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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