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Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Science Fiction Writer
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Deprived
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Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.
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I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.
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When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
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Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
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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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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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He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan
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Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.
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The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.
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Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.
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We're all so damned fragile.
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