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Hero Quotes (page 8)

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew. Graham Greene
Thomas Mann quote: "He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let..."
He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman. Thomas Mann
David Foster Wallace quote: "Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled..."
Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled yourself out of a clinical depression by being a freaking hero. David Foster Wallace
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for..."
They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes. Ursula K. Le Guin
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you..."
Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tom Hiddleston quote: "Every villain is a hero in his own mind."
Every villain is a hero in his own mind. Tom Hiddleston
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine. Woody Allen
The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that - not very appetizing - food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries. Vladimir Nabokov
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word Brenda Ueland
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours. Ayn Rand
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen
I wished i were seven feet tall. I'd hop up there and attack ol' Samson while the crowd went wild. I'd whip him good, send him flying, and become the biggest hero in Black Oak. But, for now, I could only boo him. John Grisham
If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing. Stephen Jay Gould
Child, you do not know me. You have created a mythical being in my likeness whom you have set up as a god. It is not I. Many times, infant, I have told you that I am no hero, but I think you have not believed me. I tell you now that I am no fit mate for you...My reputation is damaged beyond repair, child. I come from vicious stock, and I have brought no honor to the name I bear. To no women have I been faithful; behind me lies scandal upon sordid scandal...You have seen perhaps the best... Georgette Heyer
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. Hunter S. Thompson

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