Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.
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People aren't universally heroic.
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
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