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You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Answers
Never
Captains
Straight
Answer

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Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
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There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.
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I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!
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Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
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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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The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.
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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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You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame. Sanya to Dresden
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Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.
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Oh, I get it, I said. You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?
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I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.
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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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Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.
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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
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Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you
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Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
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Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
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Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?
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Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!
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Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.
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