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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.

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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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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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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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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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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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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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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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Very is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of I love you very much or the heart-slamming intensity of I love you?
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I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.
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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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