"The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero."
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"It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse."
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"You are the Hero of your own Story."
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"The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed."
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"How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task."
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"Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy."
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"What is a society without a heroic dimension?"
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"Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero."
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"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
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"The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in."
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"My heroes were all in the theatre."
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"The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief."
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"My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours."
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"Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can."
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"I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest."
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"What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure."
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"The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene"
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"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."
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"The great will not condescend to take anything seriously."
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"Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right."
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