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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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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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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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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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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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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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In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.
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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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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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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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