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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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Money
Cigarettes
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Declare
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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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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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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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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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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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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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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