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The truth ... is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
To hurt is as human as to breathe.
J. K. ROWLING, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
J. K. ROWLING, USA Today, Mar. 23, 2008
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.
J. K. ROWLING, speech, Jun. 5, 2008
Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who ... have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Always use the proper names for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.
J. K. ROWLING, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
J. K. ROWLING, speech to Harvard Alumni Association, 2008
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic.
J. K. ROWLING, BBC News, Jul. 17, 2005
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
J. K. ROWLING, speech, Jun. 5, 2008
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Decent people are so easy to manipulate.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I) couldn't tell you which was uppermost - euphoria or feeling devastated.
J. K. ROWLING, CBS News, Jul. 20, 2007
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Always the innocent are the first victims.... So it has been for ages past, so it is now.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
J. K. ROWLING, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
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