647 Quotes About Heroes


  • Author Lev Grossman
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    Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

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  • Author Paul Gallico
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    You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

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  • Author Aldous Huxley
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    So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

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  • Author Peter S. Beagle
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    Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

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