"Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didnâ€™t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should."

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Lev Grossman

#Hero Quotes #Brave Quotes #Should Quotes

“If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.”
“At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.”
“Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.”
“Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.28
“But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharingâ€”of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes oneâ€™s soul a reflection of the partnerâ€™s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.”
“Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.”

Source : David Berman (2011). “The Great Philosophers:Berkeley: Berkeley”, p.21, Hachette UK
“I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.”
“Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!”

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