Joanne Rowling Quotes
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There will always be a easy path and a right path.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.
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Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.
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But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
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Oh, come off it,” said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. “Yep— ten ‘Outstandings’ and one ‘Exceeds Expectations’ at Defense Against the Dark Arts.” He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. “You’re actually disappointed, aren’t you?
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.
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I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.
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Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.
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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
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I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?
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It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.
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Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
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Death comes for us all in the end.
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Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")
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We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
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Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
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You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.
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Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet.
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Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.
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I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
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It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.