The Price of Fame
Over the years, a lot has been written about the price of fame. The early Christian philosopher St. Augustine said, “The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.” The writer Henry David Thoreau said he would rather have truth than love, money or fame. And Ardelia Cotton Barton called fame, “a bubble on life’s wave,” that is “tossed about,” “a worthless thing.” She noted that, “all in nature must decay.”
Perhaps David Nicholls put it best when he said, “to have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.”
And that’s This Is America. Our producer was Brianna Blake. Our readers were Barbara Klein and Christopher Cruise, who also wrote this week’s program. Join us again next week for This Is America with VOA Learning English.
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