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Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.

—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

—Al Capone, 1929

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
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