'If they were very intelligent they would not be heroes.' (LH)
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'If Cohen was easy to kill, people would have done it a long time ago.' (LH)
'... barbarian heroes generally draw the line at blowing up the world.' He sighed. 'They're usually not civilised enough for that ...' (LH)
'... I'm the kind of person heroes aren't.' (AM)
He has survived by never giving up and never playing fair (PP)
'... I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.' (CP)
Their eyes said that wherever it was, they had been there. Whatever it was, they had done it, sometimes more than once. But they would never, ever, buy the T-shirt. And they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened to other people. (LH)
'Legends are prone to inflation.' (J)
'I always live in interestin' times,' said Cohen, in the satisfied voice of someone who did a lot to keep them interesting. (IT)
... mysterious caves and tunnels always have luminous fungi, strangely bright crystals or at a pinch merely an eldritch glow in the air, just in case a human hero comes in and needs to see in the dark. Strange but true. (MA)
If heroes didn’t arrive in the nick of time, where was the sense in anything? (MP)
... what the boy seemed most interested in was mirrors. Probably hero material .... (GG)
'What heroes like best is themselves.' (COM)
… what he didn’t like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. (COM)
‘Morning,’ it said.
Now this placed our heroes in a bit of a quandary, as you can see. You can’t go off and kill something that’s just said good morning to you. (DCC) ... if I knew I’d got a heel that would kill me if someone stuck a spear in it, I’d go into battle wearing very heavy boots - (CJ)
'Haven’t you ever noticed that by running away you end up in more trouble?’
‘Yes, but, you see, you can run away from that too,’ said Rincewind. ‘That’s the beauty of the system. Dead is only for once, but running away is for ever.’ ‘Ah, but it is said that a coward dies a thousand deaths, while a hero dies only one.’ ‘Yes, but it’s the important one.' (LC) The world had too many heroes and didn’t need another one. Whereas the world had only one Rincewind and he owed it to the world to keep this one alive for as long as possible. (IT)
'Don’t you want to die nobly for a just cause?’
‘I’d much rather live quietly for one.' (WS) She knew there was such a thing as heroic odds. Songs and ballads and stories and poems were full of stories about one person single-handedly taking on and defeating a vast number of enemies.
Only now was it dawning on her that the trouble was that they were songs and ballads and stories and poems because they dealt with things that were, not to put too fine a point on it, untrue. She couldn’t now she had time to think about it, ever remember an example from history. (LL) Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it’s the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals. (M)
'The city bleeds, Mr Lipwig, and you are the clot I need.' (MM)
'There be a lot o’ men who became heroes cuz they wuz too scared tae run!' (W)
A man who rushes into a burning building to rescue a stupid cat and comes out carrying the cat is seen as a hero, even if he is a rather dumb one. If he comes out sans cat he’s a twit. (GP)
He’d never been keen on heroes. But he realized that he needed them to be there, like forests and mountains ... he might never see them, but they filled some sort of hole in his mind. Some sort of hole in everyone’s mind. (LH)
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