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• It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

  John Mayer

  Sound, My Hero

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• In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.

  Jim Thompson

  Girl, Running, Jobs

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Real, Moving, Men

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.106, Penguin

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• The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.

  Ben Nelson

  Names, Community, September 11

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• You know, a friend of mine asked me before I got here... it was when we were all shipping out. He asked me, 'Why are you going to fight somebody else's war? What, do y'all think you're heroes?' I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I'd say no. I'd say there's no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.

  Black Hawk

  War, Fighting, Thinking

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• Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

  Black Hawk

  Way, Sometimes, Turns

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• As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

  Jon Porter

  War, Fighting, America

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• Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

  Will McDonough

  Athlete, Personality, Around The World

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• Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

  Adam Phillips

  Mean, Ends, Pragmatists

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• A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Purpose, Thinker

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• My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

  Michael Moore

  Uncles, Coward, Taught

  Michael Moore @MMFlint, twitter.com. January 18, 2015.

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• American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.

  James Carroll

  War, Air, Islands

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• You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

  Roger Kahn

  Song, Falling In Love, Team

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in A Touch of Crimson that combines gritty, exciting storytelling with soaring lyricism. Adrian is my favorite kind of hero--an alpha male angel determined to win the heart of his heroine, Lindsay, while protecting her from his lethal enemy. Lindsay is a gutsy, likable woman with paranormal abilities of her own, as well as a dedication to protecting humanity against a race of demonic monsters. This is definitely a book for your keeper shelf.

  Angela Knight

  Book, Adventure, Angel

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• A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

  Jim Morrison

  Rebel, Facts, Conquer

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• The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Conflict, Threat, Values

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• I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

  Jim Morrison

  Art, Games, Literature

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

  Jim Morrison

  War, People, Trying

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• Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces

  Virgil

  Shepherds, Birth, Hold Me

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• Every #‎ Veteran is a hero.

  Joe Walsh

  Veteran

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• No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.

  Henry Miller

  Gun, Voice, Giving

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• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Moving, Coward

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve
  the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being
  your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition-
  will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it
  may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is
  what all heroes (including you) are here to do.

  Martha Beck

  Self, Hands, Doubt

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• The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.

  Martha Beck

  Fate, Important, Stories

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.96, Harmony

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• On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

  Ken Thompson

  Movie, Kids, Hands

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