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There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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I admit, Morgan said with another withering look, it's no donut.
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Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
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It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?
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Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.
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It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.
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Isana laughed. And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition? The lady smiled. That's a question rarely asked here at court. And why is that? Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.
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All right. Tell me what I'm looking at. From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, A giant pair of cartoon lips. I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd! Bob said.
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Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.
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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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My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
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If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.
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We're all so damned fragile.
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Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
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Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.
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When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
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