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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
Mean
Men
Idiots
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Smile
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Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.
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I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.
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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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...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher
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An inferior sense of smell, Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.
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Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.
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But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, BOO!
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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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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
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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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Pansy, Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.
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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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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call hard but necessary for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.
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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.
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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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Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?
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Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
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God save me from idealists.
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I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
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Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
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