Was J. K. Rowling's "Poverty" a lie?

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• EM

  @Ember_Green · 1 year ago

  How dare you attack the homeless single mother of twelve who invented books 😭

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• JA

  @jaynaneeya · 1 year ago

  Obsessed with the way she told people she lived in an unheated flat and then got upset that everyone was saying she lived in an unheated flat

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• SN

  @snakes3425 · 6 months ago

  Tolkien writes his first Middle-earth story on the back of sheet music while recovering in a hospital from Trench Fever after surviving one of the worst battles in history and having to bury two of his closest friends<br>Rowling writes Harry Potter in an air-conditioned coffee shop that her brother-in-law owns, and claims she was so broke she was all but homeless

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• KA

  @kandyjo · 1 year ago

  Harry Potter Jr. and the Easily-Fact-Checkable Biopic.

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• JA

  @JamesTheNonbinaryKing2 · 1 year ago

  I recently read a book of a compilation of dozens of woman poets and I think Sappho would be pretty surprised to hear that JK Rowling was the first women to know how to write

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• PK

  @PKLooove · 1 year ago

  Turns out the correct quote should have been that she was &quot;as poor as a rich person can possibly be in modern Britain and still not understand what poverty is&quot;.

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• PL

  @plufim · 1 year ago

  I love how the central thesis of the movie seems to be that she never had an original idea, she&apos;s just remembering things.

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• JU

  @justanotherhardcorekid907 · 1 year ago

  &quot;living in a decrepid shoebox flat [...] while destitute and homeless&quot; I think I&apos;m having an aneurysm

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• AL

  @AlexArrelia · 1 year ago

  That comment &quot;she was the first writer to present a world where class mattered&quot; was a reply to me on Twitter--I was OP--and I still have to pinch myself to this day, because that&apos;s my enduring contribution to the discourse: the psychic damage I incurred having to read that shit in my mentions.

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• RO

  @rosexknight · 1 year ago

  Man her story coulda been about how blessed and lucky she was to have people around her to help and how grateful she was to them but nooo...

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• MI

  @misfits9294 · 1 year ago

  Wow. Not paying attention at her job at Amnesty International explains a lot about her lack of awareness for human rights.

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• UN

  @uninvincibleete · 1 year ago

  love how she pulls this whole &apos;how dare you assume i won&apos;t take care of my apartment&apos; when she admits she didn&apos;t clean for four years??? like???

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