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I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day. - Author object (443)

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful. - Author object (443)

Without love we all like birds with broken wings. - Author object (443)

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Author object (371)

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. - Author object (371)

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Author object (371)

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. - Author object (371)

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. - Author object (520)

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. - Author object (426)

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure. - Author object (426)

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. - Author object (426)

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. - Author object (426)

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. - Author object (426)

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. - Author object (426)

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. - Author object (426)

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. - Author object (426)

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already. - Author object (426)

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. - Author object (426)

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. - Author object (426)

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge. - Author object (426)