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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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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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Astonishment
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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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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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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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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
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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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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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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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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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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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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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