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We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Pursuit
Dies
Better
Must
Something
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Love

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Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher
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Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
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For me chivalry isn't dead it's an involuntary reflex.
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Love this job, Sanya murmured. Just love it. I need to challenge more people to duels, Thomas said in agreement. Men are pigs, Murphy said. Amen, said Molly. Lea gave me a prim look and said, I've not sacrificed a holy virgin in ages.
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It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.
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I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.
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Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.
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Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.
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An inferior sense of smell, Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.
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Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
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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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Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.
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Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
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[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal. The kid lifted his eyebrows. My mouth is partially paralyzed, I said. It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.
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My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
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It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.
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...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
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It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.
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Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.
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You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
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