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Quote by Elizabeth Drew
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our commo

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection. – Elizabeth Drew

Other quotes by Elizabeth Drew

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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Prison
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Elizabeth Drew
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. – Elizabeth Drew

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Travel
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Elizabeth Drew
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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. Its a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others. – Elizabeth Drew

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Propaganda
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The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? – Myrtle Barker

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Gossip

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. – James Truslow Adams

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Gossip

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

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Gossip

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. – F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

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Gossip

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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinsons poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. – Gordon Getty

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