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"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

- Oscar Wilde

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“Who gossips with you will gossip of you”
-Old Irish Proverb

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"No man is an island."
-Kurt Vonnegut

Oh, you'll never hear one of us repeating gossip,
So you'd better be sure and listen close the first time.

Hee Haw

Z

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I'm not familiar with John Donne. There is a book called, "For whom the Bells toll" by Ernest Hemingway which was probably inspired by his poem. Also, there is a Metallica song called, "For Whom the Bells Toll".
I guess Vonnegut ripped off John Donne in Sirens of Titan. I don't have the book handy. The poem is at the end when the husband and wife are all alone.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-KjkdDozQ[/youtube]

Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by whos to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? they do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
[chorus:]
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls

Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they will see what will be, blinded eyes to see

Those are lyrics to the song I posted.

Ahaseurus2000 wrote:

"There are all kinds of flights from responsibility: there is a flight into death, a flight into illness and finally a flight into stupidity. The last is the least dangerous and most comfortable, because even for clever people the way tends not to be as far removed as they might like to think it is."
- Arthur Schnitzler

"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
- Stefan Zweig

Eric Berne -

“No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.”

“Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.”

“A whole page of learned polysyllables may not convey as much as the statement that a certain woman is a b***h, or that a certain man is a jerk.”