It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name.
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Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
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The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't.
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
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All is ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Fame is proof that people are gullible.
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame 5 years in a row.
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The hall of fame ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of July.
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
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It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the 92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
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Critics I saw, that other names deface, And fix their own, with labor, in their place.
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Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!
What's fame? A fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live register'd upon our brazen tombs.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
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Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, but impotent to rise.
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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)
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As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Laugh when I laugh, I seek no other fame, The cry is up, and scribblers are my game.
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