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Contemporary fame can now be much greater than it could be in former times that it has almost crowded out the wish for the slender trickle of admiration derivable from the readers of history. The fame of a film star at the present day far exceeds that of Alexander or Caesar at the height of his career. ... Nevertheless, in most prominent men, one from of the desire for posthumous fame lingers, namely the fear of having anything known that will look bad in their biography. Read the life of almost any man who has achieved eminence, and you will find that, at a certain stage, he ceased to live quite spontaneously and began to have an eye on his biographer. This leads to a certain vein of hypocrisy and humbug from which few elderly eminent men are quite free.
Source: Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975
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