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There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Science Fiction Writer
Independence
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Afterward
Walk
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Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
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My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?
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Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.
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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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[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal. The kid lifted his eyebrows. My mouth is partially paralyzed, I said. It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.
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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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No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.
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Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.
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The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.
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I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.
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It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.
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I don't believe in faeries!
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I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
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I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.
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Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.
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Got to die of something, Giraldi observed. Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.
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