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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.
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Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.
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Billy squinted at me. Why are you letting them go? Because they're real. How do you know? The one I was holding crapped on my hand.
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Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
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I don't believe in faeries!
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Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.
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Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.
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I admit, Morgan said with another withering look, it's no donut.
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Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
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Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden
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Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.
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Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.
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Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.” She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.” “Blasphemy and lies,” I said.
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Pretty please. With sugar.
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You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.
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When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic, I said. When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.
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We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.
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I put it down to the paranoia of advancing age. It isn't like I'm all that old or anything, especially for a wizard, but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.
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