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"Gossip is more popular than literature."
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"Gossipmongers = Toxic Hearts Toxic Hearts = Bigot Souls."

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

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

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

"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."

"One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other."
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"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."

"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."
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