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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
Worship
Fame
Learning
Education
Successful
Success
Hate
Famous

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My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.
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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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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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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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When women talk about privacy they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about a room of one'sown refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
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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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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. 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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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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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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