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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.
Florence King
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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
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Washington
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Florence Virginia King
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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.
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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.
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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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For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.
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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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When women talk about privacy they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about a room of one'sown refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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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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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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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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