Gertrude Stein on fame

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.

In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol1928–1987Catalogue of an exhibition of his art in Stockholm, Sweden (1968)

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Emily Dickinson1830–1886Fame is a fickle food (B)

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Tacitus55–120