J. K. Rowling Quotes - Page 4

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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. The absence of hope. That very 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. Depression is very different.

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  Sad, Depression, Hurt

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• One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

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  Reality, People, Greek

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• ... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

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  Real, Believe, Silly

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• Size is no guarantee of power.

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  Guarantees, Size, Weasley

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• Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

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  Opportunity, Wizards, Courtesy

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.56, Pottermore

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• When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

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  Love, Life, Underestimate

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• There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

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  Life, Evil, Harry Potter Movie

  "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

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  Book, Thinking, People

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• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

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  Morning, Rain, Winter

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• Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.

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  Running, Book, Worry

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• What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.

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  Doe, Hagrid, Harry Potter Series

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

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• What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

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  Positive Thinking, Entrepreneur, Bigs

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• 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, Energy, Finishing

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

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  Teacher, Bad Teacher, Plenty

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• You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.

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  Memories, Heart, Recovery

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ch. 12 (1999). Ellipsis in the original.

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• Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Wise

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• We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

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  Fate, Knowing, Be Careful

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• No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

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  Stories, Want

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• Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

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  Reading, Writing, Hands

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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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  Creativity, Sweat, Ideas

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• Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

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  Real, Life Changing, Mean

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2014

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

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  Death, Travel, Adventure

  J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

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• Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.

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  Reading, Phases, Helping

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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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  Writing, Vocabulary, Giving

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