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I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.
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I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.
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Harry Dresden: In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.
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Harry Dresden: As a whole, people suck, but a person can be extraordinary.
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Harry Dresden: We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.
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Queen Mab: For love men will mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For Love, man will destroy himself, and do so willingly.
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Harry Dresden: You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
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Harry Dresden: Tequila? Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne.Bob: Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?Harry Dresden: Uh, I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result.
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Harry Dresden: 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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Karrin Murphy: I'm pretty sure there's no Nobel prize for pornography.
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Listens-To-Wind 'Injun Joe': Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.
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Harry Dresden: Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!
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Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.
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When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.
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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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Harry Dresden: Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.
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Thomas Raith: An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.
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Sanya, Knight of the Cross: There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.
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Harry Dresden: Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold-Athena heading out on a Friday night.
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Harry Dresden: Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men’s auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.
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Harry Dresden: I can't believe I'm about to say this. 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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Susan Rodriguez: Harry, have you ever heard of the paperless office?Harry Dresden: Yeah. It's like Bigfoot. Someone says he knows someone who saw him, but you don't ever actually see him yourself.
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Harry Dresden: Dresden Taxidermy. You snuff it, we'll stuff it.
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Harry Dresden: Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
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