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In the ebb and flow of battle there are usually only brief flashes of bravery before the brave become the dead.

— Tade Thompson One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sunlight in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (2013)

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I bring everything I know to whatever I write, and I believe the same of other writers. A person’s complete life experience forms the basis of authorial voice, in my opinion. To hold back any part makes a narrative feel contrived.

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Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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