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“For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.”

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“He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We’re all famous in our own hearts anyway.”

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“It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism”

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“He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?' 'No, I have not.' 'Well, well, such is fame!”

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“Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.”

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“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.”

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Book:The Reasons of Love

Source: The Reasons of Love

“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.”

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“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

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“I make a living, even life and death judgments, by reading peoples' body language, their raw reactions to situations. And I'd almos swear you've never seen those documents before." "Well," Aidan said, swallowing hard, calculating what fame and money had cost him. "I'd say you're damn good at your job, because I haven't.”

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Book:Perfect Timing

Source: Perfect Timing

“I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key, Dad’s creations made me feel scared and small. I saw a private part of the man I could not measure up to. At six years old, I lived in a world shaded by his ceramic glazes. There was love and color, but anger, too, in the way he kneaded his clay, palms pounding the rich, wet earth into shapes of his choosing.”

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Book:Fame Shark

Source: Fame Shark

“Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.”

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