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

—Clark Gable, 1935

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

—Mencius, c. 330 BC

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

—Erasmus, 1515

When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.

—Ethel Merman, c. 1955
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