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“Meeting one’s heroes is always such a disappointment.”

Book:The Violent Century

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“But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard about our own selves, would only make us unhappy. This is what had happened to the characters in my story: for this reason heroes could never tolerate being themselves, for this reason they always wanted to be someone else.”

Happiness Heroes Happiness Advice Ourselves

Book:The White Castle

Source: The White Castle

“Me resulta difícil encontrar un héroe a estas alturas, así que tengo que crear mi propio héroe: yo mismo.”

Heroes Soledad Hombre Heroe

Book:Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

Source: Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

“Verla says that nobody thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.”

Perspective Heroes Villains

Book:The Wild Girls

Source: The Wild Girls

“The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We can make a celebrity, but we can never make a hero. In a now-almost-forgotten sense, all heroes are self-made.”

Heroes Celebrity Culture

Book:The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“You hang your heroes. That way they’ll never disappoint you.' It also brought to mind his own retort: 'But what about your enemies? What about the villains? What do we do with those?”

Science Fiction Western Heroes Vengeance Badass Enemies Villains Gunslinger Old West Coinhunter

Book:Coilhunter

Source: Coilhunter

“We're all being left out one way or the other. The survivors miss being heroes. The heroes miss being alive. The only ones not left out are the ones who never went in.”

War Alive Survivor Heroes Dead

Book:Sherman's March

Source: Sherman's March

“You destroy me and then you kiss me. You give me a reason to hat you and then you give me a reason to love you. Is this a lie or the truth? Is the a ploy or your heart reaching for me?”

Love Romance Roma Juliette

Book:These Violent Delights

Source: These Violent Delights

“Romantic haste in drama brings tears and sighs when the hero dies but the curtain fall is final when in life we take the tragic way The sunset too is a glorious thing but with it ends the day.”

Life Romance Poetry

Book:The Washington Poems

Source: The Washington Poems

“Verla says that no one thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.”

Perspective Heroes Villains

Author:Pat Murphy

“We talked about each story for a while, and then Verla talked about heroes and villains. 'Nobody is all good or all bad,' she told us. 'The world is painted in shades of gray.”

Heroes Villains Perpective

Book:The Wild Girls

Source: The Wild Girls

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