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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
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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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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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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 don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.
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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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