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It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Apart
Darkness
Fight
Stand
Fighting
Enough
Different

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