"Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous"… - T.E. Lawrence

"Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

T.E. Lawrence

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celebrity ambition fame ambivalence

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Thomas Edward Lawrence [T. E. Lawrence] (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer known for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Commonly referred to as Lawrence of Arabia, he adopted T. E. Shaw as a pseudonym.

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Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

There was among the tribes in the fighting zone a nervous enthusiasm common, I suppose, to all national risings, but strangely disquieting to one from a land so long delivered that national freedom had become like the water in our mouths, tasteless.

"Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known. - T.E. Lawrence

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