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The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Faults
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Wasn
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Dresden
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The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.
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A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.
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When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
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I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.
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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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There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.
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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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Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
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Love this job, Sanya murmured. Just love it. I need to challenge more people to duels, Thomas said in agreement. Men are pigs, Murphy said. Amen, said Molly. Lea gave me a prim look and said, I've not sacrificed a holy virgin in ages.
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There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.
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I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.
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Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
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No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)
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