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J. K. Rowling Quotes - Page 4

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Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

Real, Evil, Agoraphobia

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

Morning, Rain, Winter

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

Reality, People, Greek

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

Teacher, Bad Teacher, Plenty

I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls.

Girl, Daughter, Stupid

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Time, Giving, Potters

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

Reading, Stories, Lasts

Size is no guarantee of power.

Guarantees, Size, Weasley

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Love, Life, Underestimate

I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

Believe, Mean, Generosity

Source: www.spiegel.de

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Pain, Grief, Sorrow

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Men, Silence, Rudeness

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.45, Pottermore

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

Lying, Slow Down

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Teenager, Internet, Boon

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Writing, Vocabulary, Giving

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

Giving, Trying, World

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.34, Hachette UK

Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.

Has Beens

I definitely know that-that love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that-God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I remember thinking that when 9/11 happened because those last phone calls were about-the last thing knowingly, that I'm going to say on this earth is 'I love you.' What's more powerful than that? What's more proof than that? Beyond fear, beyond death.

Wise, Witty, Powerful

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

Opportunity, Wizards, Courtesy

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.56, Pottermore

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

People, World, Kind

"Rowling Draws On Personal Experience In 'Vacancy'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 26, 2012.

I think that I've had a very strange life.

Thinking, Strange

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

Running, Doe, Potters

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

Heart, Mind, Ends

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Heart, Exercise, Thinking

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