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• The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

  Lord Byron

  Sea, Tears, Dignity

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Men, Idols

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.242, Xist Publishing

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• Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

  George Washington Carver

  Success, Fields, Fortune

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• Fame is a constant effort

  Jules Renard

  Effort, Reputation, Constant

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.18, Tin House Books

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• If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Funny, Humor, Waiting

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

  Alan Bennett

  Memories, Fall, Knowing

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Change, Happiness, Appreciation

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• No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.

  Michael J. Fox

  Who I Am, Matter, Remember

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

  Confucius

  Worthy, Concerned, Known

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Death, Fancy

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1786). “An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.101

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• To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

  Philip Roth

  Cereal, Names, Ivory

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jul 29, 2016

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• Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

  Hilaire Belloc

  Disease, Physicians, Fees

  Cautionary Tales (1907) "Henry King"

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• Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Differences, Teresa

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• I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

  David Bowie

  Glam Rock, Life And Death, Music And Life

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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• The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

  Jean Genet

  Success, Congratulations, Hero

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

  Steve Martin

  Unbearable, Moments, Knows

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. May, 2005.

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• The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

  Barack Obama

  Wife, Politics, Littles

  "'Run Obama! Run!' Could this be the next US president?" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2006.

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• Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  A. A. Milne

  Success, Writing, States

  A. A. Milne “Not That It Matters”, Lulu.com

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• Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stones, Becoming, Building

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”

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• If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Knights, Climbing, Hands

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1851). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.235

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• It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

  Juvenal

  Wretched

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, VIII, line 76, 1890.

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• One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

  William McFee

  Obscurity, Reputation, Efficiency

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Risk, Pieces

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• I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Bored, Use

  Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"

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• People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hate, People, Hatred

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