James Kruss Quotes

“The Great-Grandfather’s farewell note to the boy ends ”“No hero I, yet I think true/ To my beliefs: may you be too.”

“He expresses confidence that whenever he dies his great-grandson will bring him immortality and preserve ”“my small amount of wisdom”″ by never again praising false heroes.”

“The Young Boy and his Great-Grandfather fill the rest of the week this story spans discussing the question around which many of the fables turn: what makes a hero?”

“A few years later the young boy and the old boy of My Great-Grandfather and I (KR, 1964) are still turning out their brisk, well-turned, disarmingly pointed stories and rhymes in a wonderfully companionable sort of synergistic creativity.”

“A brief study of Heroes in Verse and Prose, made up and told in several attic rooms by my Great-grandfather and myself.”

“The Young Boy, now fourteen and home from school with a sore foot, and his Great-Grandfather, confined to a wheelchair and nearing the end of his life.”

“With tact and understanding the old boy guides the young one to the conclusion that Siegfried was not a hero...”

″...that Hercules was and was not a hero, that war is not heroic and that risking one’s life is not necessarily heroic.”

“I hope this book proves it,”″ ends Kruss, the now grown great-grandson, and we believe that he can rest assured.”

″ Between scribbling in the attic on the backs of wallpaper rolls, they read their efforts aloud to each other and to Uncle Harry, Upper Grandmother and Lower Grandmother.”