"Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it,--feel it, and hate in silence."

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Source : "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 256-59, 1922.

Washington Allston

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“The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.”
“In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force”
“I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.”
“The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.”
“People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.”
“I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.”
“I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.”
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”

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