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"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
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"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."
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"I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it's because people have met you and see you for who you really are. Of course, if you are not a great person, it's better to be famous. But if you have greatness, it's better to not be famous."
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"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."
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Personal Development
"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
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"Don't rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame."
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"Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does."
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"Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?"
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"Fame had brought me so much unhappiness."
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"Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that."
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"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
Risk
"...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past."
Psychology
"All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."
Desire
"I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."
Emotion
"Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person."
Writing
"Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face."
Romance
"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint."
Connection
"Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon."
Memory
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
Money
"Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness."
Youth
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