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We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Equally
Naked
Pain
Jaws

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...the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?
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Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
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Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
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Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
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It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.
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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
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Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.
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