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• To many fame comes too late.

  Luis de Camoes

  Too Late, Late

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• The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

  J. K. Rowling

  Interesting, Would Be, Wanted

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• You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Names, Long, Gone

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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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• 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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• 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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• The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fashion, Literature, Conditions

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• Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Flower, Thinking, May

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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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• How vain, without the merit, is the name.

  Homer

  Vanity, Names, Literature

  Homer (1909). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.391

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• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Literature, Warhol, Made

  "Public Speaking". Documentary, 2010.

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• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Way, Comedy, Quiet

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

  Blaise Pascal

  Reputation, Charm, Objects

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

  Thomas Browne

  Memories, Men, Merit

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

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• Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Glory

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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