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“What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.”

Men Giving Literature Half Fame Posterity

“Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly afforded by memoirs of the sons of literature. They are entangled by contracts which they know not how to fulfill, and obliged to write on subjects which they do not understand. Every publication is a new period of time, from which some increase or declension of fame is to be reckoned. The gradations of a hero's life are from battle to battle, and of an author's from book to book.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. This species of "fame" a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.”

Doe Sometimes Order Literature Lines Civilization Fame Species Acquaintance Cheaper

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.”

Feelings Literature Interest Walks Fame Intellect Egotism Covering Distortion Stripping

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings.”

“If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.”

Ifs Enough Literature Causes Fame Praise Unhappy Miserable Superficial Contributing Accolades

Author:Ethan Hawke

“How vain, without the merit, is the name.”

Literature Names Fame Vanity Vain Merit

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.”

Long School Used Literature Fame Fellows Bob

Author:Kin Hubbard

“If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.”

Ifs Looks Made Book Three Literature Stars Dark Numbers Fame Pages Mirrors Filled Visuals Trapped Blank Tigers Cubes Blank Pages

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.”

Literature Levels Study Fame Claims Academic

Author:Paul McCartney

“I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing - zero - to do with anything resembling fame.”

Art Kids Literature Fame Driven

Author:Lauren Graham

“Andy Warhol made fame more famous.”

Made Literature Fame Warhol

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.”

People Literature Names Fame Lows Radio Merit Regions Reporters Glamorous Being Famous Glamorous Life

Author:Kate Adie

“Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.”

Knows Past Artist Literature Names Fame Instruments Currents

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.”

Wanted Literature Needed Fame

Author:Danielle Steel

“For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.”

Men Children Literature Fame Preserves

Author:Aeschylus

“One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.”

Giving Art War Hands Law Literature Names Fear Fame Murder Glorious Awe Immortal

Author:Edward Young

“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”

People Knows Littles Care Literature Known Fame Advantage Idols

Author:Lord Byron

“Fame is the thirst of youth.”

Literature Youth Fame Thirst

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.”

People Knows Literature Known Fame Advantage

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.”

Life Stills Body Literature Names Fame Possession Dust This Life Still Life

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”

Literature Conditions Fashion Fame

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.”

Ifs Life Years May Light Motivational Literature Stars Goal Integrity Fame Fortune Honesty Integrity Honesty And Integrity Honest And Integrity Ethics And Integrity

Author:Denis Waitley

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