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The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

J. K. Rowling

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J. K. Rowling
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 31
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