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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.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?
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You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
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A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
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Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.
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...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher
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And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos
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Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
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Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.
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Better safe than exsanguinated.
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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
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I admit, Morgan said with another withering look, it's no donut.
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Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.
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