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Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

—Martial, c. 86

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

—Martin Luther, c. 1530

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790

Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 110
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