Andy Warhol on fame

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.

Cicero107–43 BCDe Officiis – On Duties (44 BC), Book II, section 43

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