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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843

We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.

—Clark Gable, 1935

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself. 

—Samuel Johnson, 1763
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