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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
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Men
Idiots
Idiot
Smile
Children
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Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.
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A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
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There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.
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I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
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Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
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