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“The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.”
“The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own "hunting shirts" to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.”
“Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.”
“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
“When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.”
“Those we murder with our mouths often live longest”
“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.”
“I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopov...”
“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
“Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.”
“Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.”
“A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”
“I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.”
“Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.”
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
“He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence of talking without meaning is never effaced.”
“Let them judge you.Let them misunderstand you.Let them gossip about you.Their opinions arent your problem.You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity.No matter what they do or s...”
“Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.”
“Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...”
“And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.”
