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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
Florence King
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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
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Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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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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There is nothing wrong with women's studies that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.
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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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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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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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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 proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.
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