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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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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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