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Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives. -- Nancy Hale
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. -- Voltaire
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip. -- Lorrie Moore
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The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity. -- Guy Debord
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. -- Phyllis McGinley
How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. -- Marvin J. Ashton

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