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"Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies"
"Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings."
"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip."
"Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is."
"The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune."
"Never trust the teller, trust the tale."
"If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips."
"People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves."
"Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead."
"Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously"
"There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it."
"How much an ill word may empoison liking!"
"All literature is gossip."
"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."
"History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true."
"Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session."
"If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible."
"Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension."
