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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
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. 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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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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 doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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 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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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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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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Learn to spot and avoid writer groupies. The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.
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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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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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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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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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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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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