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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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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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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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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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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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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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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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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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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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