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Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it. |
| in Hate Quotes by Jo Stafford |
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I am still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
The idea was to come up with a song that had the same kind of feeling and inspiration as Fame and yet be different from Fame. I certainly didn't want to do Fame II.
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
