| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39799 |
| QUOTATION: | In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | C. Wright Mills (19161962), U.S. sociologist. quoted in Studs Terkel, Talking to Myself, bk. 4, ch. 1 (1977). |
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