J. K. Rowling Quotes

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J. K. Rowling

Profession : Author

Birth : July 31, 1965

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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Death is just life's next big adventure.

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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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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 have failed by default.

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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

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