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There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Swordsman
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Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
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You need a prostate to understand,” I said.
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Pansy, Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.
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Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.
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Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore. Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, Eek.
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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.
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My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
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...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.
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...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher
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When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.
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Isana laughed. And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition? The lady smiled. That's a question rarely asked here at court. And why is that? Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.
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Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do
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Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?
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When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
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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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If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
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Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.
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I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.
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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.
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There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.
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