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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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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
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Florence Virginia King
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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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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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Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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