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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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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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We worship education but hate learning.
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.
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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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