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William Hazlitt

"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."

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"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."

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"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."

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"Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy."

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"I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet."

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"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."

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"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."

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"It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill."

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"Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off."

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"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood."

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"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight."

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"I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81."

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"One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world."
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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."
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"Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said."
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"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard."
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