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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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When women talk about privacy they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about a room of one'sown refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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