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Thank God for wisecracks.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Independence
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I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.
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Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.
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Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
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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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The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.
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Here there be monster. Bob whispered, half hysterically. Run! Run already!
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There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.
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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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Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.
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I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.
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She studied my face for a long minute. Are you going to help my mom? It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?
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Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.
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Apocalypse is a frame of mind. [Nicodemus] said then. A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
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Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on. Why doesn't it just marry him? Thomas muttered under his breath. It sort of did, I said. My brother the... geosexual?
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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 can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
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Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.
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Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar
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Love this job, Sanya murmured. Just love it. I need to challenge more people to duels, Thomas said in agreement. Men are pigs, Murphy said. Amen, said Molly. Lea gave me a prim look and said, I've not sacrificed a holy virgin in ages.
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