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• Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Fall, Snow

  Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

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• Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

  Steve Toltz

  Animal, Thinking, Water

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.369, Spiegel & Grau

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• I love jezebel.com for the latest on fashion, style, and celebrity gossip. I also love gawker.com for New York celebrity sightings, and galleycat.com and trashionista.com for book news.

  Meg Cabot

  Fashion, New York, Book

  Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. May 13, 2008.

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• It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Truth, People

  A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

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• It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

  Libba Bray

  Sports, London, Cricket

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Praying, Folks

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• Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

  James Goldsmith

  Humor, Disease, Flu

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• Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

  Paul Scott

  Population, Servant, Rumours

  Paul Scott (1998). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.299, University of Chicago Press

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• If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell on other people's actions, Westacott is for you. His linked studies of everyday vices offer elegant analysis of the goods that lurk in behavior that is usually condemned. This wise book is practical philosophy in the best sense.

  Mark Kingwell

  Wise, Philosophy, Book

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• Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.

  A. A. Gill

  Drama, Character, America

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• I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leave Me Alone, Luck, Bars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

  Gore Vidal

  Past, Long, Might

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jan 05, 2015

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• Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face.  Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Mean, Faces, Flattery

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• Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

  Robert Greene

  Artist, Crafts, Care

  Robert Greene (2010). “The Art Of Seduction”, p.27, Profile Books

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• What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Sunday, Doe, Tongue

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• Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

  Hesiod

  Evil, Rumor, Easy

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• Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

  Sophocles

  News, Likes, Bad News

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.31, University of Chicago Press

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• It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Character, People, Personality

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sublime, Promise, Attention

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.

  Andy Cohen

  Jobs, Stars, Reality

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• To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

  Henry Miller

  Fate, Men, Medicine

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Distance, Lying, Silence

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• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

  Booth Tarkington

  Ninety Nine, People, Doe

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com

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• If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

  Harvey Mackay

  World, Might, Corporations

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• If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, World, Annoying

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