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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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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Independence
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Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.
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The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
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I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
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Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.
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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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And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.
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When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
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Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you.
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Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?
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Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?
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We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
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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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He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.
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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
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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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A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.
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There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.
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We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.
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God save me from idealists.
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Pretty please. With sugar.
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