Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
J. K. ROWLINGYou care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.
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There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
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Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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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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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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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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Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
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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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Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
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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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