4 Quotes & Sayings By Mike Alsford

Mike Alsford is a prolific fiction author, whose debut novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, was picked as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and the Observer. His other novels include The Empty Kingdom, A Life Half Lived and The Long Way Home. He also wrote a book of short stories, Free Agent. His 2006 book, Nothing to Lose: The Amazing Life of Mike Alsford was co-authored with his brother Peter.

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To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or successfully, but just that one is willing to stand. Mike Alsford
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The hero, it might be said, is called into being when perception of a need an the recognition of responsibility toward it are backed up by the will to act. Mike Alsford
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To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an easy collapse into the madness of an increasingly chaotic world and represent another way. Mike Alsford