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Charles Olson

"The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow."

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"The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow."

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"I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives."

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"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."

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"I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one."

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"Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again. She took every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."

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"Let your heroes be known. Give praise and honor to those to whom it is rightly due. Spend more time posting stories about heroes than you do about the wrongs in the world. When we know about heroes and we see those who perform heroic acts, we too want to be heroes. There is a hero in all of us. Heroes are important."

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Amber Hurdle

"Why?" I asked. He knew what I meant, and shrugged. "Because when the legends get written, I didn't want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines. I want my future offspring to know that I was there, and that I fought against her at the end, even if I couldn't do anything useful." I blinked, this time not at the brightness of the sun. "Because," he went on, his eyes locked with mine, "I didn't want you to fight alone. Or die alone."

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Amber Hurdle

"The true hero trains himself in silence."

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Amber Hurdle

"Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world's pain then - quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero, and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero."

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