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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

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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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In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.
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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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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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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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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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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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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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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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