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Jim Butcher Inspirational Quotes (265)

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Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.
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Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.
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I put it down to the paranoia of advancing age. It isn't like I'm all that old or anything, especially for a wizard, but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.
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There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
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I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.
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No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.
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There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.
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Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you.
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The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.
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Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.
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You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.
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Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.
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Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
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I can't believe I'm about to say this, I said. So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?
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If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.
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It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
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Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.
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There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.
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Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
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Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.
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It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.
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There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.
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Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.
Jim Butcher
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