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> [Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bywater/ideally-you-should-be-your-own-hero-just-as-i-am-mine/)

[Michael Bywater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bywater/)

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## More by Michael Bywater

> [One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bywater/one-of-the-rules-of-history-is-that-people-do-not-write-about-what-is/)

[Michael Bywater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bywater/)

> [Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bywater/primate-books-are-good-for-us-they-remind-us-that-we-re-primates-too/)

[Michael Bywater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bywater/)

> [America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bywater/america-the-idea-of-we-yearned-for-its-beer-and-jazz-its-smoke-filled/)

[Michael Bywater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bywater/)

> [“Melancholy (1) An excess of black bile, anatomized by Robert Burton, embraced by the swooning Romantics as evidence of their fine sensibilities, now fallen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bywater/melancholy-1-an-excess-of-black-bile-anatomized-by-robert-burton/)

[Michael Bywater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bywater/)

> [Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bywater/ideally-you-should-be-your-own-hero-just-as-i-am-mine/)

[Michael Bywater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bywater/)

> [“Risk assessment is the new religion, the Big Babies'equivalent of the apotropaic ritual, the haruspices, the chicken entrails and the goat on the altar.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bywater/risk-assessment-is-the-new-religion-the-big-babies-equivalent-of-the/)

[Michael Bywater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bywater/)

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