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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
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Abandon
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No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.
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Thwart, I said. To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition. Sarissa said. It is today.
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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
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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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Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
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I mean it, I said. You're in danger. Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.
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I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.
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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
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Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.” “Why?” she asked. “Well. I met him,” I said.
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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
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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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Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.
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