"I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures."

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"I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures."

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"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."

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"Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip."

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"We call talking about other people's personal lives 'gossip' only if we aren't or weren't part of the conversation."

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"A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away. The gossip died in the fire they started, longing for warmth they could not find or keep when they did. And no one spread the word, about the gossips' death."

Justin K. McFarlane Beau, Canadian Poet

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"You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them."

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"Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic."

Patricia Meyer Spacks, American Writer

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"Rumours voiced by women come to nothing."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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