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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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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
Enjoy
Enjoying
Ideas
Innovation
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Guilt
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Worship
Physical
Americans
Creativity
Beauty
Elitism

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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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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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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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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. 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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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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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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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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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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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's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.
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