Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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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There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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The ones that love us never really leave us.
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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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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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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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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
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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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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
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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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