To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts. - Dorothy Norman

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I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week - it might be really nice to stay in!

Dorothy Norman

To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

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Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.

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Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

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Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

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Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

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