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• Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

  Don DeLillo

  Fascination, Secrecy, Ends

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Praise

  Henry David Thoreau (1884). “Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Echoes, Mind, Known

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• Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

  Jessica Alba

  Change, Jobs, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

  Bill Maher

  Numbers, Comedy, Pool

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• To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Integrity, Thinking

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• Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Kindness, Writing, Heart

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• Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

  Alexander Pope

  Honest, Let Me, Grants

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.132

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• Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Fickle, Drawbacks

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• I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

  Dorothy Parker

  Names, Nails, Rosters

  Here Lies (1939) "The Little Hours"

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• The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

  Saint Augustine

  Mind, Desire, Noble

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• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

  John Updike

  Life, Faces, Mask

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 26, 2013

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• It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Fire, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.604, ShandonPress

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• What rage for fame attends both great and small!
  Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

  John Wolcot

  Rage

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  Vicki Baum

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.

  Washington Allston

  Hate, Silence, Excellence

  "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 256-59, 1922.

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• Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

  Charles Churchill

  Fear, Men, Guilt

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.193

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• --then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

  John Keats

  I Love You, Thinking, World

  'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)

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• We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

  Bette Davis

  Stars, Want, Ends

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• The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Success, Discipline, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.26

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• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Literature, Warhol, Made

  "Public Speaking". Documentary, 2010.

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• To myself alone do I owe my fame.

  Pierre Corneille

  "L'Excuse a Ariste". Poem by Pierre Corneille,

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• A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Men, Rewards

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• Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.

  George Sewell

  Sleep, Inspire, Clay

  George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields”, p.12

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• The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

  Colley Cibber

  Ephesians, Fool, Youth

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