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Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
Jim Butcher
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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher
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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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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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I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.
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Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.
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I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.
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Tavi grinned. Are you with me? The plan is insane, Ehren said. YOU are insane. He looked around the inside of the tent. I'll need some pants.
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You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.
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So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby.
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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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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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Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects of my appearance, conduct, and situation, and said, 'Finally.' 'There’s been a lot on my mind,' I replied. 'It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten,' Queen Mab replied. 'Improve your mind.'
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We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
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I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.
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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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Ease off the martyr throttle.
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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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You're a cop. I need a doughnut.
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My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.
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No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)
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