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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Things
Vodka
Sanity
Keeps
Whenever
Killing
Laughter
Laugh
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Dresden

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I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
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