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Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Dresden
Discretion
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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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Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.
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My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher
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Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
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Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
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