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Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
Florence King
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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.
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In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
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I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.
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