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“People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.”

People Mind Ideas Seems Evil Opportunity Names Harder Towns Accomplish Privacy Gossip Idle Small Town

Book:Novels, 1930-1935

Source: Novels, 1930-1935

“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.”

Enough Towns Decades Boredom Isolation Description Gossip Village Precise Sage Petty Surveillance Toronto Vulgarity Repetitive Malicious Global Village Marveling Malicious Gossip

Author:Guy Debord

“Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.”

Soul Facts Faces Truth Is Towns Your Soul Gossip

Author:Conor Oberst

“A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”

Giving Persons Real Christian Towns Pet Gossip Parrots

Author:Billy Graham

“You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]”

Knows Towns Gossip

Author:Ovid

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

Source: To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts

“You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town”

Knows Know How Waste Towns Gossip Toxic Small Town Toxic Waste

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.”

Littles Towns Gossip Little Towns

Author:Kin Hubbard