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Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Jelly
Thou
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My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.
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Isana felt her throat tighten. We failed. Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.
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Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.
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There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.
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Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
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There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.
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There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.
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Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
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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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Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?
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Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
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Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.
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I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.
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Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.
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Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
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For me chivalry isn't dead it's an involuntary reflex.
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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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I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles
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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
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Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
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