Without heroes, we're all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.
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The Natural (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952) p. 154.Bernard Malamud
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Without heroes we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud
It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.
Eliza Calvert Hall
Unlike storybook heroes and heroines but like many actual heroes and heroines, she was something of a social outcast. (As Simone Weil noted, it was the people with irregular and embarrassing histories who were often the heroes of the Resistance in the Second World War; the proper middle-class people may have felt they had too much to lose.)
Pauline Kael
"I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner."
Errol Morris
The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own heroes — ideals for heroes — and they don't need to be told elaborate lies.
Jessica Lynch
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