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" There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. "

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" I think you're working and learning until you die. "

" When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. "

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" I really don't believe in magic. "

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" In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it. "

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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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" With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. "

" 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. "

" I don't need to publish to make a living. "

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" No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing. "

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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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