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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.
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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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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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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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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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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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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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.
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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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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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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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