Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beaut...
(pl. ) of Celebrity
Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on.
Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
To be somebody you must last.
After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.
When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.
The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.
To her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she f...
Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.
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