J. K. Rowling - People Quotes

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People liked to talk; there were very few exceptions; the question was how you made them do it. Some... were amenable to alcohol; others liked a spotlight; and then there were those who merely needed proximity to another conscious human being.

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He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!

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You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

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Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.

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He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

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I won't blast people out of my way just because they're there' said Harry. 'That's Voldemort's job.

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Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.

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Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

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She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

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