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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
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What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded.' The firing squad.'' That's not the whole truth. Try again.'' Insatiability, ' he said with some bitterness.' That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more, ' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes.' The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.'' Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common? .Angela Carter