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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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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
Good
Hug
Men
Seventies
Eighty
Feminist
Caught
Rock
Fathering
Rocks
Hugs
Hard
Eighties

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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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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, This is good enough for you. The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.
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