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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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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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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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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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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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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
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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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The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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