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Jim Butcher – amerykański pisarz literatury fantastycznej.

Jim Butcher uznawany jest przez „New York Times” za jednego najlepiej sprzedających się pisarzy fantasy w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Swoją popularność zdobył dwoma cyklami fantasy: Akta Harry’ego Dresdena oraz Codex Alera.

Ma dwie starsze siostry. Obecnie mieszka w Independence wraz ze swoją żoną Shannon K. Butcher i synem Jamesem Josephem oraz psem obronnym Frostbitem Vondoomem. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Październik 1971
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Jim Butcher cytaty

„Otwarte oczy przynoszą mało pożytku, jeżeli umysł za nimi jest zamknięty.”

Jim Butcher

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed. (ang.)
Źródło: Princep's Fury (2008) z serii Codex Alera

Jim Butcher: Cytaty po angielsku

“Harry Dresden: Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.”

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Jim Butcher Dead Beat

It's more heroic.
Źródło: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 34

“Harry Dresden: You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!”

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Jim Butcher książka Small Favor

Źródło: The Dresden Files, Small Favor (2008), Chapter 24

“It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.
I turned around and ran like hell.”

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Jim Butcher książka Death Masks

Źródło: Death Masks

“I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.”

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Jim Butcher książka Small Favor

Źródło: Small Favor

“Harry Dresden: I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.”

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Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Źródło: The Dresden Files, Proven Guilty (2006)

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”

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Jim Butcher książka Vignette

“Sanya, Knight of the Cross: Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”

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Jim Butcher książka Changes

Źródło: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 33

“I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”

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Jim Butcher książka Fool Moon

Źródło: Fool Moon

“Harry Dresden: The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.”

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Jim Butcher książka Blood Rites

Źródło: The Dresden Files, Blood Rites (2004), Chapter 1, Opening Line

“You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.”

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Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Źródło: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 24
Kontekst: Harry Dresden: You’re in America now. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you’d prefer.
Anastasia Luccio: Did you bring a sandwich?
Harry Dresden: What do I look like, Kissinger?

“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

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Jim Butcher książka White Night

Źródło: White Night

“In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”

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Jim Butcher książka Summer Knight

Źródło: Summer Knight

“If I need you I'll give you a signal.'
'What signal?'
'I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl”

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“Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?”

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Jim Butcher książka Storm Front

Źródło: Storm Front

“I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.”

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Jim Butcher książka Summer Knight

Źródło: Summer Knight

“Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”

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Jim Butcher książka Small Favor

Źródło: Small Favor

“I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.”

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Jim Butcher

Źródło: My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

“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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Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Źródło: Dead Beat

“Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.”

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Jim Butcher książka Storm Front

Źródło: Storm Front

“There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.”

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Jim Butcher książka Death Masks

Źródło: Death Masks

“Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”

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Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Źródło: Proven Guilty

“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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Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Źródło: Dead Beat

“Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.”

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Jim Butcher książka Changes

Źródło: Changes

“If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.”

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Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Źródło: Turn Coat

“I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.”

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Jim Butcher książka Cold Days

Źródło: Cold Days

“Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.”

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Jim Butcher książka Storm Front

Źródło: Storm Front

“A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.”

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Jim Butcher książka Storm Front

Źródło: Storm Front