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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

“I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.”

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Jim Butcher książka Changes

Źródło: Changes

“I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.”

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Jim Butcher książka Death Masks

Źródło: Death Masks

“Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.”

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Jim Butcher

“Some men fall from grace. Some are pushed.”

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Jim Butcher książka Skin Game

Źródło: Skin Game

“Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones… Words will never, et cetera.”

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Jim Butcher książka White Night

Źródło: White Night

“Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life.'
'God,' I said. 'I.”

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Jim Butcher książka Small Favor

Źródło: Small Favor

“I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.”

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Jim Butcher książka Summer Knight

Źródło: Summer Knight

“It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that.

"And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.”

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Jim Butcher książka Ghost Story

Źródło: Ghost Story

“I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.”

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Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Źródło: Captain's Fury

“I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed.

(My life. Hell’s bells.)”

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Jim Butcher książka Cold Days

Źródło: Cold Days

“I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.”

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Jim Butcher książka Changes

Źródło: Changes

“But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side… and had them start off screaming, "BOO!”

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Jim Butcher książka Ghost Story

Źródło: Ghost Story

“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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Jim Butcher książka Ghost Story

Źródło: The Dresden Files, Ghost Story (2011), Chapter 9

“He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a.44 revolver in his pocket.”

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Jim Butcher książka Backup

The Dresden Files short stories, Backup
Kontekst: Thomas Raith: Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-good-ness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a.44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences-and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being.

“I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.”

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Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Źródło: Dead Beat

“I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pieces of bread.”

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Jim Butcher książka Small Favor

Źródło: Small Favor

“It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”

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Jim Butcher książka Ghost Story

Źródło: Ghost Story

“He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.”

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Jim Butcher książka Death Masks

Źródło: Death Masks

“Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"

Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd… prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.”

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Jim Butcher książka Ghost Story

Źródło: Ghost Story

“The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.”

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Jim Butcher książka Cold Days

Źródło: Cold Days

“beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.”

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Jim Butcher książka Skin Game

Źródło: Skin Game

“Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.”

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Jim Butcher książka Cold Days

Źródło: Cold Days

“Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too.

"It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock.”

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Jim Butcher książka Small Favor

Źródło: Small Favor

“Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping."

Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're on our own."

Yeah."

Good. It's more familiar.”

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Jim Butcher książka Changes

Źródło: Changes

“Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.”

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Jim Butcher książka Ghost Story

Źródło: Ghost Story

“If I stay, they'll kill me… If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.”

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Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Źródło: Captain's Fury

“Each creature had something it excelled at, he supposed. Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else.”

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Jim Butcher książka The Aeronaut's Windlass

Źródło: The Aeronaut's Windlass