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Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Befriend
Briefly
Wolf
Sheep
Hungry

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The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.
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Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.
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You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.
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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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No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)
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