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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
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Florence Virginia King
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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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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In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, This is good enough for you. The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.
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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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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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Learn to spot and avoid writer groupies. The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.
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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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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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