“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.”
Crime Time interview (2001)
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Memorial Day Vision. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Context: These heroes are dead. They died for liberty — they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars — they are at peace. In the midst of battles, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death.
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“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
movie The Dark Knight
Character Harvey Dent