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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

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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
Contempt
Doesn
Breed
Familiarity

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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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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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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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