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There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
Something
Nose
Always
Noses
Lady
Grow
Grows
Reek
Reading
Granny
Woman
Lamp
Book
Lamps

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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football instead of building character, it tears it down.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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We worship education but hate learning.
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Learn to spot and avoid writer groupies. The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.
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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
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Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, This is good enough for you. The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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There is nothing wrong with women's studies that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.
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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.
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