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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.
Florence King
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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
Away
Psychological
Cannot
Shot
Wells
Driven
Southerners
Well
Shots
Southerner
Take
Pride
Intolerable
Something
Genius
Alchemy
Changed
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Tolerate
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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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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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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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