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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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• 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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• 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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• Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sea, Puppets, Dimensions

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  James Goldsmith

  Humor, Disease, Flu

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• Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Sports, Sex, Media

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• I'm in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin will come up in like the first 20 minutes, and that doesn't put me in the mood. Like, talking about Sarah Palin. And they just want to know gossip, and I'm just kind of taking a little hiatus from dating right now, because I just don't want to talk about Sarah Palin.

  Meghan McCain

  Men, Talking, Dating

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• People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.

  Marcia Lynn McClure

  Thinking, People, Problem

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• If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Wind, Want, Stuff

  "Ordinary Blues" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Character, Analysis

  "Elizabeth Hardwick, The Art of Fiction No. 87". Interview with Darryl Pinckney, www.theparisreview.org. 1985.

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• The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

  Marthe Bibesco

  House, Royal, Affair

  Marthe Bibesco (1930). “Some royalties and a prime minister: portraits from life”

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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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• 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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• It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

  Woody Allen

  Pornography, Knows

  "Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• You don't gossip while your man is driving. You sit there quietly until you're about 5 minutes from your destination then you say, would you like some road head?

  Daniel Tosh

  Men, Driving, Minutes

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• Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Littles

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.86, Graphic Arts Books

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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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• The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...

  James C. Scott

  Dream, People, Giving

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

  James C. Scott

  Rumor, World, Temperature

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

  James C. Scott

  Income, Speak, Property

  James C. Scott (1990). “Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Design, Desire

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn't have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Media, Issues

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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