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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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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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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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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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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
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