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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. "

J. K. Rowling

Parents

Name

Hard

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Jane

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Country

Feel

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Escape

Some People

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Know

People

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J. K. Rowling

Great

Death

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" 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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J. K. Rowling

Myself

Just

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