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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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"My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world."
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"You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero."
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"The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point."
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"The hero isn't the one who is right, but the one who steps forward to take the blame-deserved or not-and apologize to save a relationship."
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"A hero: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition, and resolves to do something about it."
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"Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't."
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"Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. Later at Camp Half-Blood, Percy took Nico by the arm, promising to keep his sister Bianca safe. Nico believed him. Nico looked into his sea-green eyes and though, How can he possibly fail? This is a real hero."
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"You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism."
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"Don't dare try to be heroes."
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"People love super heroes. It's true we're impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities. So why our admiration for the hero and not the nemesis? Because of virtue. A super hero gives everything to defend what's good and right without seeking praise or reward. Think about it. All the great heroes give without taking, help without grumbling, sacrifice without asking recompense. A super hero's real strength, what we absolutely fall in love with, is his finer virtue."
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"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 do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
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"A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind."
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"The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it."
Time
"It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due."
Time
"As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me."
People
"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."
Thought
"I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could."
Thought
"There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out."
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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."
Heroism
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