Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. ROWLINGLet us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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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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There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
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Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.
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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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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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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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Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
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It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
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Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.
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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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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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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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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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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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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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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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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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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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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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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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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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