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“I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.”

Faces Hero Thousand

Author:Norman Spinrad

“He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.”

Men Faces Found Names Fear Hero Needed Band Towns Calm Certainty Resolve Coward Jackals

Author:Walter Hill

“Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.”

Persons Doe Faces Death Dies Differences Fate Hero Coward

Author:Alexander Lowen

“If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.”

People Ifs Faces Certain Loses Mankind Hero Tragedy Disaster Atrocities

Author:Gao Xingjian

“The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.”

World Faces Acting Courage Hero Reluctant Fearlessness Best Hero

Book:Secrets Uncovered: A Romantic Suspense Collection: Never Say Die\Kansas City Cover-Up\Infiltration

Source: Secrets Uncovered: A Romantic Suspense Collection: Never Say Die\Kansas City Cover-Up\Infiltration

“The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.”

World Kind Shows Dream Faces Speak Leader Revolution Hero Mirrors Certainty Mask Riddle

Author:Naomi Klein

“Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.”

Knows Wells Faces Black Environment Hero Adversity South Facing Adversity

Author:Arthur Ashe

“Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.”

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Author:Doug Phillips

“I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.”

Humans Faces Lying Planets Hero

Author:RuPaul

“Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.”

Art Faces Stuff Products Hero Thousand Labels Consumers Commerce Framework Packaging

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.”

Moments Faces Identity Hero Tragedy That Moment Face To Face True Identity

Author:Aristotle

“That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.”

Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

“I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.”

Book Helping Faces Spiritual Hero Thousand Help Me Heroic Exploring

Author:Viola Davis

“Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.”

Faces Dark Streets Building Cold Hero Weapons Destruction Angry Wide Roof Royal Statues Parades Vienna

Author:Quentin Crisp

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

Pain Faces Hero

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.”

Made Stories Faces Enemy Stupid Hero Knives Twisted Ribs Pipers Orpheus Wrong Friends

Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath

“And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

“Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

World Should Pain Faces Wish One Thing Hero Physical Pain

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.”

Happens Faces Hero Coward

Author:O.R. Melling

“It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.”

Stories Faces My Own Hero Standing Love Story Dramatic Face To Face

Author:Richelle Mead

“This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No brush or paint will ever show the hero that you are. It will never be able to portray the sound of your voice when you whisper my name. The way my skin tingles when you touch me. The passion of you inside me. I love you, Talon. I know that I can’t keep you. No one can ever tame a wild beast. You have a job to do and so do I. I only hope that when you think of me, it’ll bring a smile to your face. Love always, Sunshine. (Sunshine's note)”

Source: The Dark-Hunters

“Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. " love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can’t you say it, Hero?"”

Believe Wells Heart Faces I Believe Love You Hero My Heart Kissing Cheeks

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.”

Believe Made Faces Stuff Hours Steps Hero Instance Alternatives Recalls Face To Face

Book:A Princess of Mars (Science Fiction Classic): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Barsoom Series, Llana of Gathol, Pirates of Venus, The Land That Time Forgot & Pellucidar

Source: A Princess of Mars (Science Fiction Classic): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Barsoom Series, Llana of Gathol, Pirates of Venus, The Land That Time Forgot & Pellucidar

“Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.”

People Children Doe Pain Faces Mother Fear Dark Simple Hero One Day Blow Candle Heroism Terrified Battlefields Childbirth

Author:David Gemmell