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I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
Elmore Leonard
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Time will unveil all things to posterity.
Euripides
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Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Madame de Stael
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
Walter Cronkite
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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph Addison
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Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
Anton Chekhov
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
Abraham Lincoln
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There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.
Peter Reading
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Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.
Arundhati Roy
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What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
Marcel Proust
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
Horace Walpole
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
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I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
Doug Liman