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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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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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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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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