What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
J. K. ROWLINGTalent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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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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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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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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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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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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Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need 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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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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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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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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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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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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You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.
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