The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. ROWLINGI think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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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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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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A good first impression can work wonders.
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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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It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
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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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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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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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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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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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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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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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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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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.
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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
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The ones that love us never really leave us.
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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