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"And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self."
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"Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true."
"I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it."
"I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start."
"In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell."
"Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!"
"There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally."
"A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true."
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"For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead."
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"Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men."
"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."
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