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J. K. Rowling

Joanne "Jo" Rowling OBE (born 31 July 1965), who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies

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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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.
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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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