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“It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.”

Way Artist Rich Fame Motive Tangible Being An Artist Become Rich

Author:Dirk Benedict

“The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."”

Two Might Names Given Wind Fame Patterns Bread Instance Thirty Motive Given Names

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.”

Social Rooms Achieve Fame Expected Motive Visitors Canon Introverted Proust Cork

Book:What Price Fame?

Source: What Price Fame?

“I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.”

Knows Want Writing Looks Desire Fame Motive Look Up Dictionary

Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.”

Men Writing Country Wise Fame Motive Avarice Authorship Instructors

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.”

Certain Amount Fame Motive

Author:Patricia Richardson

“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.”

Fame Making Money Motive Craving Publish

Book:Concrete

Source: Concrete

“The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.”

Men Feelings Action Desire Powerful Influence Fame Constant Motive Dread Reproach Posthumous

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.”

Men Way Want Should Desire Our Lives Judging Depends Fame Judgment Sake Favors Reputation Despite Labels Motive Bias Peril Preoccupation

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld