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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

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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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Never
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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When women talk about privacy they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about a room of one'sown refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
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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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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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For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.
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Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.
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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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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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We worship education but hate learning.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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