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We're all so damned fragile.

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Damned
Fragile

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I know how you feel, I said. You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.
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I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
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...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.
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I can't believe I'm about to say this, I said. So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?
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There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
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My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.
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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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Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?
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In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.
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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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Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.
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Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies. You, may be, Thomas said, sneering. I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky. You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you, Molly said tartly.
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Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.
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God save me from idealists.
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I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.
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Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.
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