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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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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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Very is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of I love you very much or the heart-slamming intensity of I love you?
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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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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
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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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We worship education but hate learning.
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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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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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