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Me and polite have never been on close terms.

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Polite

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Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.
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Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
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It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?
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Go back,” he said. “Can’t. Stand aside?” “Can’t.” “So it’s like that?” I said. Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. “Yeah.” And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war.
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We're all so damned fragile.
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There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
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We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.
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You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
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Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
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There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.
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Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do
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Oh, I get it, I said. You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?
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Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
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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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Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.
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Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.
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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
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When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic, I said. When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.
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Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.
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