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Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Gone
Find
Dresden
Enough
Grab
Life
Harry
Nowhere
Near
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I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.
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Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
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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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