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“But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“In fact my popularity seemed almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.” Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
“to make oneself loved without courting popularity is one of the finest careers a man can hope for.” André Malraux, Man's Hope
“It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are...” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” John Green, Paper Towns

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