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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
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Florence Virginia King
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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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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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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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