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“Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around.”

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“Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.”

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Book:The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it was that the woman who slept in his bed would be judged unworthy of his company. Her husband's fans recoiled from the notion that she might have made a significant contribution towards his achievement of greatness. The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained.”

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Book:Shakespeare's Wife

Source: Shakespeare's Wife

“While yes, it’s good to have a fair amount of haters, it’s not good to have them on the street, where their anonymity can let them slip away without serious repercussions if they slight you, and this made me realize that fame, on its own, without fear, actually totally fucking sucks.”

Book:Alpha

Source: Alpha

“...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself.”

Book:Devil and the Bluebird

Source: Devil and the Bluebird

“De jure objections are arguments of claims to the effect that Christian belief, whether or not true, is at any rate unjustifiable, or rationally unjustified, or irrational, or not intellectually respectable, or contrary to sound morality, or without sufficient evidence, or in some other way rationally unacceptable, not up to snuff from an intellectual point of view.”

Book:Warranted Christian Belief

Source: Warranted Christian Belief

“A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you’re famous, it’s as if you’ve got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.”

Fame Celebrity Famous Celebrity Culture

Author:Heathcote Williams

“Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name”

Book:Foundation's Fear

Source: Foundation's Fear

“A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to Pierrot”

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Book:Pierrot & Columbine

Source: Pierrot & Columbine

“Fame had kept me from getting laid that night. Fame would make it so other people would bother me, follow me around with cameras, be all up in my shit, keep me from doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Fame could even potentially kill me. It killed a lot of people: John Lennon, Princess Diana, Selena.”

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Book:Alpha

Source: Alpha

“There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now found themselves the unwilling objects of a gruesome sort of reflected fame as they walked the corridors: Susan Bones, whose uncle, aunt, and cousins had all died at the hands of one of the ten, said miserably during Herbology that she now had a good idea what it felt like to be Harry. "And I don't know how you stand it- it's horrible" she said bluntly.”

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Book:Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix