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