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J. K. Rowling

Youth 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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age

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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best

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

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best

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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best

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

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business

Death is just life's next big adventure.

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death

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

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death

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

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death

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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dreams

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

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dreams

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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experience

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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failure

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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failure

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

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failure

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

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famous

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

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famous

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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fear

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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fear

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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fear

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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funny

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

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good

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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great

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

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great

I received free health care.

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health

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

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home

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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imagination

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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imagination

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

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intelligence

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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knowledge

I think you're working and learning until you die.

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learning

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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life

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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money

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

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poetry

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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power

Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

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respect

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

J. K. Rowling

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

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.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

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

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

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.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

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

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

I received free health care.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

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.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

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.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

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.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

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