Credulity lives next door to Gossip.
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"That what Everybody Says must be True"Samuel Laman Blanchard
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.
Tibor Fischer
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
I’ve always liked gossip, gossip is fun, but whether you believe it or not is something else, and yet the web seems to want to believe. The web doesn’t distinguish between what’s playful and serious. And the speed! What is happening in the web, and all the tweeters tweeting, they become neurons. They are the neurons of the global village. Village is the right word because the village is where the gossip is taking place, it doesn’t take place in the cities. A piece of information comes into that little neuron – whoop – and they’ve immediately got to pass it across the synaptic gap…
Terry Gilliam
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