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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ...
by Erica Jong

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong

Related topics: Cynical

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong PHOTO

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong PHOTO

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

 

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong

Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong

He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong

We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong

Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong

The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong

Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong

If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong

My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong

The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Don't complain, don't whine, and don't gossip.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I choose to be caring, compassionate and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau

Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry

Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.
- the Woody Allen movie Manhattan (1979)

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;
it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley

It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain

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