"King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur."

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"King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur."

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"Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Heroism, History, War, Death, Honor

"The true hero trains himself in silence."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

Heroism, Silence, Discipline, Training

"And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need."

Robin Hobb, American Author

Heroism, Myth, Legacy, Action

"I stare at him, trying to comprehend what he's done. He saved Magiano from falling overboard. He saved me. He is taking this mission seriously, however much he loathes us."Maybe next time, he says to me with that smile, "you won't be so lucky."

Marie Lu, American Author

Heroism, Action, Risk, Gratitude

"A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Heroism, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Heroism, Identity, Life, Death

"Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Heroism, Denial, Truth, Health

"He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished, he died."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Heroism, Rank, Values, Achievement

"If monkey became a man, then a man can become a hero."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Heroism, Evolution, Man, Change

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"I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing."

Adventure

"It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army."

War

"After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published."

Family

"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."

Books

"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."

Friendship

"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."

Relationship

"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."

Books

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

Learning

"There's this huge number of desperate people."

People

"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."

Concern