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Gloria Swanson

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

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

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"Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium."

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"It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things."

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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."

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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."

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"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."

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

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"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny."

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