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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Chapter VIn context
- Work
I know now, I understand at last, Constantine, that for us, whether we write or act, it is not the honour and glory of which I have dreamt that is important, it is the strength to endure. One must know how to bear one’s cross, and one must have faith.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Seagull (1896), Act IV, spoken by NinaIn context
- Faith
For the bliss of being a writer or an actress I could endure want, and disillusionment, and the hatred of my friends, and the pangs of my own dissatisfaction with myself; but I should demand in return fame, real, resounding fame!
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Seagull (1896), Act II, spoken by NinaIn context
To my dying day I shall hear people say: “Clever and pretty; clever and pretty,” and nothing more; and when I am gone, those that knew me will say as they pass my grave: “Here lies Trigorin, a clever writer, but he was not as good as Turgenieff.”
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Seagull (1896), Act II, spoken by TrigorinIn context
- Writing
When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962Comment on fame, quoted in Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (1993) by Carl E. Rollyson, and in Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men (2006) by Orrin Edgar Klapp
- Envy
That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather it be sex than some of the things we’ve got symbols of… I hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
- Sex