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I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

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
Smile
Children
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Men
Idiots
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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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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
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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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The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
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I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
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Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.
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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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Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
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He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.
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I'm brilliant as well as skilled, he said modestly. It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.
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There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, What's up, boss? Evil's afoot. Well, sure, Bob said, because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.
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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.
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Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.
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Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide.
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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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Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.
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There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
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I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.
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I admit, Morgan said with another withering look, it's no donut.
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