You can define heroism any way you want to, but that’s it for me. It’s sticking in there no matter what… — John Varley
You can define heroism any way you want to, but that’s it for me. It’s sticking in there no matter what. Whether it’s a pilot fighting his plane down through that last mile, or switchboard operators and doctors and nurses staying at their posts while the bombs blitz London, or even the dance band on the Titanic playing while the ship goes down…
It’s fulfilling your responsibilities.
p. 80Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
More from this book
By then I was sure the universe could no longer surprise me, nor interest me. I was wrong. It managed to do both in no more than ten minutes.
p. 205
I hate inefficiency. You’d have to look a long long ways before you found a better example of it than the press conference.
p. 150
“You see…when you get right down to it, I don’t believe you have my daughter. I won’t until I see her. And having seen her, I won’t believe I could lose her again.”
Sherman looked at him for a long time.
“The universe is, so far as I know, Doctor Mayer, indifferent to what you believe or disbelieve.”
p. 233
