Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.
J. K. ROWLINGUltimately, 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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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
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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 have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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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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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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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.
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Time is making fools of us again.
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We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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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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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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Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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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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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.
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Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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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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Size is no guarantee of power.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
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