"I want fame more than I can tell.……" — Mary MacLane
"I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness."
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Mary MacLane
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38 Quotes by Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane has 38 quotes on this site.
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I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.
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When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that…
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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to…
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I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
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Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I…
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I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and…
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Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at…
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I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the…
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond…
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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where…
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Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality;…
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It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
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More Fame Quotes
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
— Francis Bacon
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you…
— Francis Bacon
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some…
— Kevin Bacon
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame…
— Lloyd Banks
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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
— Tyra Banks
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone…
— George Matthew Adams
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
— Brigitte Bardot
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