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Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.-FRANK HERBERT, Dune
The more well-known you are, you become a target.-CALVIN KLEIN, Larry King Live, Jun. 5, 2000
If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live. -MARILYN MONROE, interview with Richard Meryman, Life Magazine, Aug. 3,1962
Of present fame think little, and of future less. The praises that we receive after we are buried, like the posies that are strewn over our graves, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them.-CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.-EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Last of the Barons
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.-NEIL GAIMAN & TERRY PRATCHETT, Good Omens
Fame: A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.-CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.-HUNTER S. THOMPSON, The Proud Highway
When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothes not you.-MARILYN MONROE, attributed, Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (Rollyson)
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