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• In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Long, Community, Leader

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• The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.

  Libba Bray

  Wish, May, Venture

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• There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Believe, Men, Serious Man

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.83, OUP Oxford

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• A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like to chatter, you would like to just hold their hand and live and be silent in that moment. If you chatter, that means you are avoiding the person - love is not really there. If you love life, chattering will drop, because every moment is so filled with life that there is no way, no space to chatter. Each moment life is flooding you so vitally - where is the time to gossip and chatter?

  Rajneesh

  Love, Mean, Hands

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• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

  Mark Twain

  Jealousy, Envy, Criticism

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Gathering, Information, Ifs

  Mercedes Lackey (2010). “Intrigues: Book Two of the Collegium Chronicles (A Valdemar Novel)”, p.158, Penguin

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• Every penny from Gossip Girl, my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

  Kelly Rutherford

  Girl, Children, Fighting

  "Kelly Rutherford Says She's Broke From Custody Battle: Everything 'Spent Fighting for My Children'" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. April 26, 2013.

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• History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

  Gore Vidal

  Past, Might, Being True

  "Gore Vidal, the Fantastic Man". "Butt", No. 20, April 7, 2007.

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• I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?

  Janet Jackson

  Mean, People, Diversity

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• In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Truth, People, Desire

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.507, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

  Lucinda Roy

  May, Telling The Truth, Claims

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• For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

  George Washington Cable

  Summer, June, Leaving

  George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

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• I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, 'He should get used to it. That's the price to pay if you're getting $12m a movie'. If I'm getting paid $12m a movie I'd walk around naked. That's all nonsense. I don't know who makes that stuff up. Even the price for the first one was nonsense.

  Robert Pattinson

  Naked, Pay, Stuff

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• Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

  Carrie Fisher

  Believe, People, Heard

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• I shoot for 'Extra' three times a week, and that's great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows, parties and premieres, I'll also get peoples' reactions to different news items and topical gossip.

  Holly Madison

  Stars, Party, Vegas

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• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Envy, Religion

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• You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Government, Giving, Poor

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• I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl."

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Fun, Lying

  "'Gossip Girl' Creator Reveals Reality of 'Young Adult'" by Cecily von Ziegesar, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.

  Merrill Markoe

  Celebrity Gossip, Culture, Care

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Loneliness, Thinking

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• Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Home, Tired

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• Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

  Muhammad Ali

  Slander

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• Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Reputation, Good Company, Wit

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• It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

  Louis Kronenberger

  New York, Eye, Years

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• The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Differences, Government

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