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

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Differences, Teresa

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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 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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• Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

  Maureen Dowd

  Beautiful, Giving, Democracy

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• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tongue, Prison, Abode

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Giving, Half

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• It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

  Lillian Hellman

  Change, Women, People

  Pentimento "Theatre" (1973)

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• Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Thinking, Individual

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.335

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• I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hogwash, Sentimental, Nonsense

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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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• 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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• 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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• As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Men, Lasts

  "The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims".

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• The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Strong, Passion

  Christine Allison, Susan Sontag (1978). “The benefactor: a novel”, Delta

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