"It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them."
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"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."
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"I, personally, liked the legend."
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"Fame and fortune, how empty they can be."
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"Fame is a heavy burden."
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"What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone."
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"Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it."
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"Fame gets you in the door but it doesn't keep you in the room."
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"Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day."
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"Fame is a constant effort"
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"Notoriety is often mistaken for fame."
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"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."
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"You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems."
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"By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at."
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"The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat."
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"My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank."
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"Fame is the thirst of youth."
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"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."
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"All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure."
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"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
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