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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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What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The...more

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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.-Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, pag...more

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

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We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.

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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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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

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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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I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

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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 y...more

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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

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You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default...more

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I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a distinctly uncharitable outlook on the world, I o...more