Like the man in the fairytale who turned everything he touched into gold, so with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

In speaking to a friend in 1920, Einstein of course was referring to the myth of King Midas. As the legend goes, King Midas eventually hated and cursed his power to turn everything he touched into gold. Einstein himself detested the limelight that his fame brought him.

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