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"Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town."
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"Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name."
"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."
"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
"The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind."
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end."
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."
"When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely."
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
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