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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
Actor
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Science Fiction Writer
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If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
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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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Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
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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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Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.
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I'm brilliant as well as skilled, he said modestly. It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.
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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.
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Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide.
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People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.
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I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
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I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.
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There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
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Thwart, I said. To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition. Sarissa said. It is today.
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Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
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We're all so damned fragile.
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The movie of my life must be really low budget.
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I know how you feel, I said. You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.
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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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