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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
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Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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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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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke 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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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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