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.
J. K. ROWLINGYouth 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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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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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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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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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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You must accept the reality of other people.
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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 is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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A good first impression can work wonders.
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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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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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Death comes for us all in the end.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.
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