“In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Theater
“It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.”
— Sebastian Barry, book The Secret Scripture
Source: The Secret Scripture
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