James Alred

“Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and Poems

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.”
― Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle