Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. ROWLINGGreatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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Time is making fools of us again.
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Death comes for us all in the end.
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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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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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Size is no guarantee of power.
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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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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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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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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.
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Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.
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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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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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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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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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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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
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We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
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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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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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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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It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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