"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

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Source : "How to Seek Heroism in Demands" by Grande Lum, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.

John Barth

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“You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!”
“Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him”
“With God life is an endless hope. Without God, life is a hopeless end.”
“When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.”
“I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines.”
“I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.”
“I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now.”
“Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid.”

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