960 Quotes About Fame

  • Author Dante Alighieri
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    And without fame, a man must spend his lifeOnly to leave such traces upon earthAs smoke leaves in the air, or foam in the sea

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  • Author Ezra Pound
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    There is something so degrading - at least, one would think that there were something so degrading in the practice of writing as a trade - that anyone who has once earned a livelihood, or part of it, obviously and openly, by popular writing, can never be seriously regarded by any great number of people. And then, of course, "he does too much.

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