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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
Tacitus55–120
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
Voltaire1694–1778Candide (1759), Chapter XXVIn context
- Writing
In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol1928–1987Catalogue of an exhibition of his art in Stockholm, Sweden (1968)
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Talking
Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 2
- Freedom