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Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Dresden
Fails
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Intellect
Instinct
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