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"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."
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"The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words."
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"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."
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"Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame."
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"Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement."
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"Heroes can be sweet."
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"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."
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"I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older."
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"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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"He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished, he died."
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"A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt."
Self


"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
Life


"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
Luck


"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."
Creativity


"I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it."
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"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal."
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"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."
Thought


"The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it."
Time


"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."
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"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."
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