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Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.
Source: Gossip, Knopf 85; in NY Times, 1 Sep 1985.
-- Patricia Meyer Spacks, (May 19 1929-____), US literature scholar, writer; 0