Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave.

  • -- Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿

名声是一个殡仪员,他很少注意活人,却为死人主持葬礼,为他们举行葬礼,并跟随他们进入坟墓。

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Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

当我走进一个公共厕所,一个索要签名的人在隔间门底下递给我一支笔和一张纸时,名气对我失去了吸引力。

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

我死后,我宁愿有人问我为什么没有纪念碑,也不愿有人问我为什么有纪念碑。