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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
Actor
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Science Fiction Writer
Independence
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Apart
Darkness
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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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Pansy, Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.
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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call hard but necessary for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.
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Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.
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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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