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"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."
"Fame is proof that people are gullible."
"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."
"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."
"He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television.""Are you and Beetee going?" I ask."As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here."
"I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game."
"I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame."
"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
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