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"More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself."
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"I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine."
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"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
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"It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die."
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"Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex."
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"I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting."
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"Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script."
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"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately."
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"How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)"
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"Work on nothing less than epic scale"
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"Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should."
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"Your life was meant to be epic. Stand up for your best today."
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"You are epic fail if you think you are better than me!"
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"All bad writers are in love with the epic."
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"With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."
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"Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end."
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"Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic."
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