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" Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. "
J. K. Rowling
World
Even
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" 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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" Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. "
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" Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. "
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" Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. "
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" I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing? "
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" I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. "
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" I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. "
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" Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. "
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" In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything. "
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" We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. 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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Know
" Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. "
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" Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. "
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Pinnacle
Aspire
Jane
" I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. "
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Like
Writer
" I would always want printed books. "
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Printed
Books
Always
" The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. "
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Been
Boon
" I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me. "
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Country
Me
Feel
" I always felt an outsider. "
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Outsider
Always
Felt
" The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. "
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Book
Said
Someone
" The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. "
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Thing
Things
" There's no formula. "
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" I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. "
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Public
Eye
" We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. "
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Them
Lot
See
" I've laid my friends bare. "
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Bare
Friends
Laid
" I'm not a natural joiner. "
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Natural
" I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? "
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Society
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" If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz. "
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" I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. "
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" I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world. "
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Effort
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World
" The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people. "
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