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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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For me chivalry isn't dead it's an involuntary reflex.
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Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore. Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, Eek.
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It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.
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Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.
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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.
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Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
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Here there be monster. Bob whispered, half hysterically. Run! Run already!
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He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan
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Isana laughed. And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition? The lady smiled. That's a question rarely asked here at court. And why is that? Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.
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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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I admit, Morgan said with another withering look, it's no donut.
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It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
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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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Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.
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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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Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.
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I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.
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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame. Sanya to Dresden
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Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.” “Why?” she asked. “Well. I met him,” I said.
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