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"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
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"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome."
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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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"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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"As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored."
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"The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point."
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"Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come."
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"Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did."
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"Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes."
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"I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero."
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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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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
Books
"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."
Criticism
"The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on."
Life
"I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things."
Emotion
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
War
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
War
"What you don't write is often more important than what you do."
Creativity
"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl."
Creativity
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
Business
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