“Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.” — David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Tag: fame
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“You really don’t want to be famous. Read the biography of any famous person.” — Kevin Kelly, 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
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“FAMOUS, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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“It takes brains to make a smart man, but good luck often makes a famous one.” — Josh Billings, “Lobstir Sallad,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“Any kind of fame can lead you into a kind of self-caricature sequence where you end up being driven around by your image.” — Stewart Brand, “Stewart Brand – The Polymath of Polymaths,” The Tim Ferriss Show
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“Nobody who understands fame wants to be famous.” — Ran Prieur
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“When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.” — W. S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers
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“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.” — Dr Matt Cartmill, “Why I became a scientist”, American Scientist, 1988
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“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” — Robert Benchley
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“Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.” — John Wooden, They Call Me Coach
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