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No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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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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Pansy, Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.
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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
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You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
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Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
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Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.
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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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Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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So? Bob said. Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved. Bob, I said. You can't just go around killing people. I know. That's why you should do it. No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.
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Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar
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Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.
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I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.
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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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Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.
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You need a prostate to understand,” I said.
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There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
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Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some. Ebenezar tsked. Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.
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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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That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.
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