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Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.
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I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
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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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Isana laughed. And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition? The lady smiled. That's a question rarely asked here at court. And why is that? Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.
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Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you
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Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.
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The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
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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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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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Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
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Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.
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And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos
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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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You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.
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You're a cop. I need a doughnut.
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Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
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Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
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The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
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...the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?
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Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.
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